Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMoscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
ALEXANDER PUSHKINA 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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINThank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
ALEXANDER PUSHKINTry to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINInspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINDon’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINBallet is a dance executed by the human soul.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINTo 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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMy whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINPlay interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINBetter the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINCabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINIt is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINSomewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINI am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN