My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINIn this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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