I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINHabit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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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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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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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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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.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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