More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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.
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.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
