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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
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.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
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.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
