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.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINPlease, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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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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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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