Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
ALEXANDER PUSHKINSad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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