Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINA deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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