If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINIf you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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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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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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