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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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.
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.
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.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
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.
