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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINCabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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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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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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