Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
ALEXANDER PUSHKINAs long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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