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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
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.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
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.
