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.
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 was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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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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