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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

Alexander Pushkin

Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Friendship Myself People
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Body Choice Country Decent Forget Live Marriage Try
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Happiness Joy Mouth Pieces
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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Mathematics Need Poetry
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Attempt Burn Flame Reason
In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Age Choice Himself Man Prison
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation
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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Day Death Fragment Friendship Heart Time
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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Beautiful Moments Myself Rare Vision
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Death Heart Live Memories Oneself
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand

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