I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINTry to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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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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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Tis 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.
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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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