Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINWrite for pleasure and publish for money.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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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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