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 PUSHKINTis 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.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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