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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.

Alexander Pushkin

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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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