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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINCabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it’s raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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