I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINBetter the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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