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To "seek inspiration" has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Habit to us is given from above:
it is a substitute for happiness.

Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.

Sauvage, sad, silent,
as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

The less we love her when we woo her,
The more we draw a woman in,

From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs.

Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.

He's happy now, he's almost sane.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Moral commonplaces are amazingly useful when we can find little in ourselves with which to justify our actions.

Thus people
so it seems to me
Become good friends from sheer ennui.

Thus heaven's gift to us is this:
That habit takes the place of bliss.

Moscow ... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Admittedly, his dinners consisted only of two or three courses, and were prepared by an ex-soldier, but the champagne flowed like water.

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.

Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.

I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable reason, 'between dog and wolf'.

What is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.

It's now the British Muse's fables That lie on maidens' bedside tables And haunt their dreams. They worship now The Vampire with his pensive brow,

Habit is heaven's gift to us:
a substitute for happiness.

I am not in the position to sacrifice the essentials of life in the hope of acquiring the luxuries. -Pushkin

Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

Fickle as water,
our life is as dreamlike as smoke
- at our expense,
fate's private joke.
-The Bronze Horseman

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.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

My goddesses! Where now? Forsaken?
Oh hearken to my call, I rue:
Are you the same? Have others taken
Your place without replacing you?

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]

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.

We've got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden's joys for us are moot.

Sad that our finest aspiration
Our freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

Enough! Clear-souled and far from wasted,
I start upon an untrod way
To take my rest from yesterday.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

I gaze forward without fear.

We live without power of law, like flocks of ravens
they come and sweep over the land.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you ...

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

I'm only writing this to show
That I stopped sinning long ago.

Epression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.