Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINAs long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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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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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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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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 am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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