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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.

Alexander Pushkin

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Life Meet Pledge Yourself
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
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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Aspiration Dreams Fine Fresh Leaving Sad Success
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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Body Choice Country Decent Forget Live Marriage Try
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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Interest Myself Play Position Sacrifice Win
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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Burn Bury Desire Dreams Empty Heart Live
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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Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Barley Boredom Excellence Food National Shade Soup
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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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
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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Day Death Fragment Friendship Heart Time
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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Life Live Old Woman Yourself

Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.

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