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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINA deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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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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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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