Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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