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| Russian | English |
| без музыки жизнь была бы ошибкой | without music, life would be a mistake. (Фридрих Ницше) |
| была без радостей любовь, разлука будет без печали | as our love held no joy, so will our parting hold no sorrow (Mikhail Lermontov, The Agreememt). The quotation is generally used in an extended sense, for example, on referring to leaving a job where one was not happy or parting with people whose company one did not enjoy, etc.) |