More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
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.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
