More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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.
It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.
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.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
