Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINWith womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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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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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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