Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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