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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINSomewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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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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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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