More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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.
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.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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.
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.
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.
