I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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 want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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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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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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