More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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.
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.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.