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A 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.

Alexander Pushkin

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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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A 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.
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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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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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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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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise
Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Fuse Heart Store Strain
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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Habit Happiness Heaven Place
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Attempt Burn Flame Reason
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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