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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Alexander Pushkin

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Life Meet Pledge Yourself
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
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
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
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
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
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
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
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
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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Day Death Fragment Friendship Heart Time

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

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