Alexander Pushkin Quotes

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• Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
• Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
• My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
• Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
• I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress,…
• It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the…
• I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
• It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
• I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
• To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
• Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
• In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
• Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...
• Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
• I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The…
• I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart…
• A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
• I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart…
• I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my…

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