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Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You__e a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You__e twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you__ have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth
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Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You__e a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You__e twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you__ have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth

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