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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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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 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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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