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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
— Alexander Pushkin
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
— Alexander Pushkin
Habit to us is given from above:it is a substitute for happiness. — Alexander Pushkin
Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.
— Alexander Pushkin
Sauvage, sad, silent,as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling. — Alexander Pushkin
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
— Alexander Pushkin
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
— Alexander Pushkin
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
The less we love her when we woo her,The more we draw a woman in, — Alexander Pushkin
From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs.
— Alexander Pushkin
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
— Alexander Pushkin
He's happy now, he's almost sane.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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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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Moral commonplaces are amazingly useful when we can find little in ourselves with which to justify our actions.
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Thus peopleso it seems to me
Become good friends from sheer ennui. — Alexander Pushkin
Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss. — Alexander Pushkin
Moscow ... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!
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Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
— Alexander Pushkin
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language. — Alexander Pushkin
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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
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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Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness. — Alexander Pushkin
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
What is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.
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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
Habit is heaven's gift to us:a substitute for happiness. — Alexander Pushkin
I am not in the position to sacrifice the essentials of life in the hope of acquiring the luxuries. -Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
— Alexander Pushkin
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
— Alexander Pushkin
Fickle as water, our life is as dreamlike as smoke
- at our expense,
fate's private joke.
-The Bronze Horseman — Alexander Pushkin
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
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
— Alexander Pushkin
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
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.[From: 19 Lessons On Tea] — Alexander Pushkin
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
We've got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden's joys for us are moot.
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Sad that our finest aspirationOur freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away. — Alexander Pushkin
Enough! Clear-souled and far from wasted,I start upon an untrod way
To take my rest from yesterday. — Alexander Pushkin
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
— Alexander Pushkin
I gaze forward without fear.
— Alexander Pushkin
We live without power of law, like flocks of ravensthey come and sweep over the land. — Alexander Pushkin
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
— Alexander Pushkin
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...
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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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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you ...
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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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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
— Alexander Pushkin
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
— Alexander Pushkin
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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I'm only writing this to showThat I stopped sinning long ago. — Alexander Pushkin
Epression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
— Alexander Pushkin
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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