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.
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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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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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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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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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