More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
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.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
