Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThen came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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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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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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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 want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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