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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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.