"Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess.……" — 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)"
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Alexander Pushkin
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31 Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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