Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINPlease, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it’s raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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