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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
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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Body Choice Country Decent Forget Live Marriage Try
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Attempt Burn Flame Reason
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation
Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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Appearance Emotion Finding Love Magic Sound Togetherness Weave
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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Burn Bury Desire Dreams Empty Heart Live
Play interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
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Interest Myself Play Position Sacrifice Win
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams
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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Life Live Old Woman Yourself
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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Angry Believe Grief Joy Myself Sadness Time
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
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
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
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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Aspiration Dreams Fine Fresh Leaving Sad Success
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Death Heart Live Memories Oneself

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