Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINHabit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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