If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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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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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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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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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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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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