More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
..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.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
