Play interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINDon’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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