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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.

Alexander Pushkin

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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
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Amusing Born 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
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
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
Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Fuse Heart Store Strain
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
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
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
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
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Burn Bury Desire Dreams Empty Heart Live
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
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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Interest Myself Play Position Sacrifice Win
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
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
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
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
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
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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Life Live Old Woman Yourself
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Death Heart Live Memories Oneself
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Habit Happiness Heaven Place
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
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession

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