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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMy whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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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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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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