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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.