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 PUSHKINI am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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