Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
ALEXANDER PUSHKINA man who’s active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what’s known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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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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