Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINPlay interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it’s raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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