Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Play interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
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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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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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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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