A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINEcstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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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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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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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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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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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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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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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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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