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

Alexander Pushkin

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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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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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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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Age Choice Himself Man Prison
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Attempt Burn Flame Reason
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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Angry Believe Grief Joy Myself Sadness Time
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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Dreams Myself Sweet Youth
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Amusing Born Myself
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Change Happiness Marriage Myself
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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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
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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Beautiful Moments Myself Rare Vision
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
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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Argument Difference Fear Flattery Fools Insult
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Happiness Joy Mouth Pieces
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Dance Human Soul
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
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Habit Happiness Heaven Place
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Life Meet Pledge Yourself
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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