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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. — Alexander Pushkin

Pushkin wrote Turkish poems and he was never in Turkey. — Ilya Ilf

Actually on the point of tears, though I knew perfectly well at that moment that all this was out of Pushkin's Silvio and Lermontov's Masquerade. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

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

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. — Alexander Pushkin

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

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. — Alexander Pushkin

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

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

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

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

TO MY MIND, PUSHKIN BEST SUMS UP THE SEASON: Lovely summer, how I could cherish you / If heat and dust and gnats and flies were banished. — Paul Russell

As Pushkin put it: He had no itch to dig for glories deep in the dirt that time has laid. — Haruki Murakami

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

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

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

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

Write for pleasure and publish for money. — Alexander Pushkin

I gaze forward without fear. — Alexander Pushkin

We live without power of law, like flocks of ravens
they 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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