A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINSomewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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