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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Alexander Pushkin

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  It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

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  My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

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  I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

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  Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

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  In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

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  Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

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  With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

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  My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

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  Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

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  Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

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  A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

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  Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.

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  Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

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  Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

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  Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

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  I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

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