I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINI’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.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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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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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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To 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.
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