Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMy whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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 am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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