My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINInspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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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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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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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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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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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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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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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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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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