Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINI am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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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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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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