Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it’s raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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