Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINI do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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