More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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.
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,
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.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
