Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINI do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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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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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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