Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it’s raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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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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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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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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