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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINSomewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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