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

Alexander Pushkin

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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Burn Bury Desire Dreams Empty Heart Live
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Dreams Myself Sweet Youth
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
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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Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
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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Existence Ideas Physical Place Togetherness World
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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Age Blessing Love Refreshment Storm Surrender
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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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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Day Death Fragment Friendship Heart Time
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Change Happiness Marriage Myself
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams

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

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