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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThe 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.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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 want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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