Alexander Pushkin Quotes

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

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Thousand

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Grief

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• Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Illusion, Thousand, Ten

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• Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Asking, Crowns, Fool

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• Then came a moment of renaissance,
  I looked up - you again are there,
  A fleeting vision, the quintessence
  Of all that`s beautiful and rare.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Beautiful, Famous Love, Vision

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• Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Inspirational, Obsession, Impulse

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• 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 to dust.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Failure, Heart

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• I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Want, Study, Language

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

  Alexander Pushkin

  Memories, Heart, Long

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• The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Toil, Our Love, Ruins

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• Write for pleasure and publish for money.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Writing, Pleasure, Publish

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• My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Whole Life, Meetings, Whole

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• 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, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Love, Jealous, Fire

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• A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Deception, Host, Lows

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

  Alexander Pushkin

  Flames, Reason, Beats

  "Fictional character: Evgeny Onegin". "Onegin", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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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 and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Believe, Night, Men

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• With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Easier, Charm

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• Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Civilization, Mailman, Despise

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• I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Born

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• Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Inspirational, Math, Poetry

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• Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Men

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• Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Glasses, Tea, Pieces

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• 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 storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Lonely, Grief

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

  Alexander Pushkin

  Littles, Our Actions, Moral

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• 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

  Ideas, Two, Together

  Alexander Pushkin (2012). “The Queen of Spades and Other Stories”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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