Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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