Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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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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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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