More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
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.
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.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
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.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
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.
