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

Alexander Pushkin

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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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Beautiful Moments Myself Rare Vision
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams
Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
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Angry Believe Grief Joy Myself Sadness Time
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Habit Happiness Heaven Place
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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Appearance Emotion Finding Love Magic Sound Togetherness Weave
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Change Happiness Marriage Myself
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
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Happiness Joy Mouth Pieces
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
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Attempt Burn Flame Reason
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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Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
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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Age Blessing Love Refreshment Storm Surrender
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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Age Choice Himself Man Prison
Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Barley Boredom Excellence Food National Shade Soup
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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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise

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