Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINSad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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