Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINIt is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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