Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINMy whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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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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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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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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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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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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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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A man who’s active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what’s known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
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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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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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