Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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