More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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.
