Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINWrite for pleasure and publish for money.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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