I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
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 am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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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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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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