Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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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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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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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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