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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

Alexander Pushkin

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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Body Choice Country Decent Forget Live Marriage Try
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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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Life Live Old Woman Yourself
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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Aspiration Dreams Fine Fresh Leaving Sad Success

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