We all take on Napoleons features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools. Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin 51 likes Like But even friendship like our heroes Exist no more for weve outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes- Except of course ourselves alone. Pétri de vanité, il avait encore plus de cette espèce d'orgueil qui fait avouer avec la même indifférence les bonnes comme les mauvaises actions, suite d'un sentiment de supériorité, peut-être imaginaire.įormed by vanity, he possessed still more of that species of pride that leads one to confess to good and evil actions with a like indifference, due to a sense of superiority which is perhaps merely imagined. A novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin Translated by Vladimir Nabokov Transliteration by Stanislav Shvabrin Introduction by Brian Boyd With a frontispiece by. Before Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) wrote Eugene Onegin, his nation's literature was a parochial one after he wrote it, due in no small part to its power and influence, the Russian tradition became one of the central traditions of Western civilization. Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin 51 likes Like But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes- Except of course ourselves alone.

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