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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Alexander Pushkin

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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 Choice Dreams
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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Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
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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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
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
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
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
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Life Meet Pledge Yourself
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
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
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
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
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Habit Happiness Heaven Place
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

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