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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

Alexander Pushkin

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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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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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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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