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.
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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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