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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Alexander Pushkin

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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Dreams Myself Sweet Youth
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Barley Boredom Excellence Food National Shade Soup
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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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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