Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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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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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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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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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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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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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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