Alexander Pushkin Quotes - Page 2

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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 he.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Men, Tyrants, Choices

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• Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather
  of mind got clarity new-found;
  now free, I once more weave together
  emotion, thought, and magic sound.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Weather, Magic, Mind

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

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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 refresh the fields of spring.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Spring, Blessing, Yield

  Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen (2009). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.199, Oxford University Press

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• My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Youth, Sweetness

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• Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Country, Years, Two

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• Habit is Heaven's own redress:
  it takes the place of happiness.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Heaven, Habit, Redress

  Alexander Pushkin (2009). “Eugene Onegin”, p.88, The Overlook Press

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• 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 dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Pain, Men, Gone Away

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• Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Good Friend, People, Ennui

  Alexander Pushkin, James E. Falen (2009). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, Oxford University Press

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• Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

  Alexander Pushkin

  Heart, Sound, Moscow

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

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• Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Sacrifice, Winning, Play

  Alexander Pushkin (2012). “The Queen of Spades and Other Stories”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Wish, Married

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• Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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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. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Summer, Dream, Heart

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• 'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Heart, Dust, Together

  "'Tis Time, My Friend". Poem by Alexander Pushkin, 1834.

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• I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Moscow, Want, Old Woman

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• Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

  Alexander Pushkin

  Play, Wife, Letters

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• Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Russia, Soup, Shade

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• Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Wine, Mistress, Vain

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• Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Autumn, Meditation

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

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• But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Hero, Men, Feelings

  Alexander Pushkin (1998). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Fighting, Men, Mind

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

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• There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord, Put me to witness much for many years, And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk, Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp, And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Book, Years, Light

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

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