Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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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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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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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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