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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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