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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Alexander Pushkin

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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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Argument Difference Fear Flattery Fools Insult
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Life Meet Pledge Yourself
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
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
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
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
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
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
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
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
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
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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Existence Ideas Physical Place Togetherness World
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
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
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession

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