A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINA 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.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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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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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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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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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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