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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Alexander Pushkin

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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Day Death Fragment Friendship Heart Time
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
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
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
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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Age Blessing Love Refreshment Storm Surrender
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Happiness Joy Mouth Pieces
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
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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Argument Difference Fear Flattery Fools Insult
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
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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Existence Ideas Physical Place Togetherness World
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
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Age Choice Himself Man Prison
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
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
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

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