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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

Alexander Pushkin

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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Day Death Fragment Friendship Heart Time
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Death Heart Live Memories Oneself
Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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Civilization Human Translation
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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Language Myself Study Understand
Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Friendship Myself People
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Amusing Born Myself
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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Body Choice Country Decent Forget Live Marriage Try
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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Age Choice Himself Man Prison
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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Interest Myself Play Position Sacrifice Win
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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Argument Difference Fear Flattery Fools Insult
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
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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Darling Family Learning Organization
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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Life Live Old Woman Yourself
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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Aspiration Dreams Fine Fresh Leaving Sad Success
Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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Barley Boredom Excellence Food National Shade Soup
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams

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