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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.

Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Sauvage, sad, silent,as timid as the sylvan doe,in her own familyshe seemed a strangeling.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: The less we love her when we woo her,The more we draw a woman in,

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: He's happy now, he's almost sane.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

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

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

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Thus peopleso it seems to meBecome good friends from sheer ennui.

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

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

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: 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'.

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'.

Alexander Pushkin quotes: What is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: 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,

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,

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

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

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

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: 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.

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.

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

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

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Sad that our finest aspirationOur freshest dreams and meditations,In swift succession should decay,Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Enough! Clear-souled and far from wasted,I start upon an untrod wayTo take my rest from yesterday.

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: I gaze forward without fear.

I gaze forward without fear.

Alexander Pushkin quotes: We live without power of law, like flocks of ravensthey come and sweep over the land.

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you ...

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

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

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Alexander Pushkin quotes: I'm only writing this to showThat I stopped sinning long ago.

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

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

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

Alexander Pushkin quotes: Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

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

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

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

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