I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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