More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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.
..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.
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.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
