Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINEcstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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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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Play interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
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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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