It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINFearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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