My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMoscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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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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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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