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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Alexander Pushkin

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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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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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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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Life Live Old Woman Yourself
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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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
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Darling Family Learning Organization
Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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