I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall 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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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