Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMoscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand 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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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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