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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.

Alexander Pushkin

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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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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Happiness Oneself Pleasure Publish Writing
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
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
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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