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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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.
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.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.