More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
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.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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.
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.
