A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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