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| English | Russian |
| as our love held no joy, so will our parting hold no sorrow | была без радостей любовь, разлука будет без печали (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.) |