Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINPlay interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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