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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)

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
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
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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Existence Ideas Physical Place Togetherness World
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Better Illusion Stop Truth
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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Interest Myself Play Position Sacrifice Win
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Change Happiness Marriage Myself

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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