If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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.
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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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.
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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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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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