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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINUnrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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