I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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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Love 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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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