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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.

Alexander Pushkin

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
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
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
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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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
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
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Fuse Heart Store Strain
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Mathematics Need Poetry
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
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
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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Argument Difference Fear Flattery Fools Insult
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
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation
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

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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