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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise

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