More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
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.
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.
It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.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.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
