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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

Alexander Pushkin

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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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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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Day Death Fragment Friendship Heart Time
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Dear Deception Elevate Host Low Truth
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Love Man Raise
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
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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Aspiration Dreams Fine Fresh Leaving Sad Success
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
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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Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Death Heart Live Memories Oneself
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
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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Age Blessing Love Refreshment Storm Surrender
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Life Meet Pledge Yourself
Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Barley Boredom Excellence Food National Shade Soup
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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Life Live Old Woman Yourself
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
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams
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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
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
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

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