With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINBallet is a dance executed by the human soul.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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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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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Play interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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