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ALEXANDER PUSHKINTis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall 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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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