More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
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.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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.
