Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINInspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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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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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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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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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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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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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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