Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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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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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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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