I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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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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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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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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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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