"I want to understand you, I study your…" — Alexander Pushkin
"I want to understand you, I study your obscure language."
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31 Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin has 31 quotes on this site.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a…
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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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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody…
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I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let…
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It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment…
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want…
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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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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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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…
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Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
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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…
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be…
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High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
— Aristotle
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
— Diane Ackerman
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
— Roger Babson
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
— Michelle Bachelet
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
— Walter Bagehot
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