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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

Alexander Pushkin

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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Life Meet Pledge Yourself
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
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
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Amusing Born Myself
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise
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
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
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
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
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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Body Choice Country Decent Forget Live Marriage Try
Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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Appearance Emotion Finding Love Magic Sound Togetherness Weave
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
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Habit Happiness Heaven Place
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
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
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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Life Live Old Woman Yourself
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
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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Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
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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Existence Ideas Physical Place Togetherness World
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
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

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