More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
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.
