Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINLove 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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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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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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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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