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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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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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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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