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 PUSHKINThus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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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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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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