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.
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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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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