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 PUSHKINMy whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it’s raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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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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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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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