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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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.
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.
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.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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.
