Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMy dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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A man who’s active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what’s known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
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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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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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