Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINIt is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low 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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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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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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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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