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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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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