"Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse."
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Alexander Pushkin
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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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More Compulsion Quotes
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one of 264 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and…
— Julie Burchill
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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