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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
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.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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 want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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.
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.
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.
