Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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 want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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