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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.

Alexander Pushkin

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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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Burn Bury Desire Dreams Empty Heart Live
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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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Dreams Myself Sweet Youth
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Attempt Burn Flame Reason
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Life Meet Pledge Yourself
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
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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Age Blessing Love Refreshment Storm Surrender
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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Aspiration Dreams Fine Fresh Leaving Sad Success
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
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 PUSHKIN

Existence Ideas Physical Place Togetherness World
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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Beautiful Moments Myself Rare Vision
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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Age Choice Himself Man Prison
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Death Heart Live Memories Oneself
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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Argument Difference Fear Flattery Fools Insult
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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Interest Myself Play Position Sacrifice Win
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
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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Angry Believe Grief Joy Myself Sadness Time
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Habit Happiness Heaven Place
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Amusing Born Myself
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Change Happiness Marriage Myself
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession

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