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.
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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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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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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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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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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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