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What does it mean?
Ignoring or neglecting a woman in romance often traps her further in the lover's manipulative web.
In plain terms
Ignoring a woman in love often ruins her more.
What can you take from it?
Neglect in love can be deeply harmful.

Where it applies

  • romantic conflict
  • relationship advice
  • ethical conduct

Putting it to work

  • treat partners with care
  • avoid manipulation
  • respect boundaries

Questions to consider

  • How should love be treated?
  • What harm can indifference cause?

Another view

Sometimes neglect is not intentional or malicious.

More from Aleksandr Pushkin

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  2. The clock of doom had struck as fated; the poet, without a sound, let fall his pistol on the ground.

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  3. Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

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