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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINTwo 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.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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 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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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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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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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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