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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Alexander Pushkin

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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
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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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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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Fuse Heart Store Strain
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
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
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Happiness Joy Mouth Pieces
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth

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