Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMoral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMy whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINWrite for pleasure and publish for money.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINDon’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINI want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThen came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINCabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINBallet is a dance executed by the human soul.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINIf you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMoscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
ALEXANDER PUSHKINHabit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINA deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINWith womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINTis 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 PUSHKIN