Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINEcstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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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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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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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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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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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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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