Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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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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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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