Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINTry to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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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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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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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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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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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