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

Alexander Pushkin

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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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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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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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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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