Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMoscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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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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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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