Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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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 am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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