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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Deception
Elevates
TRUTHS
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Flames
Burn
Reason
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Dreams
Sweetness
Indeed
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.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Lived
Dreams
Fruitless
Heart
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Moral
Surprisingly
Actions
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.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Lucky
Committed
Emotions
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Books
Made
Cramping
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Depression
Guard
Shadow
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Was
Born
Tsars
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Dearer
TRUTHS
Illusion
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.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
People
Paradise
Mother
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
People
Friends
Good
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Ecstasy
Sugar
Mouth
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Love
More
Woman
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Better
Exalt
Thousand
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.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Fixed
Physical
Moral
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.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Interests
Position
Superfluous
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.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Lucky
Banquet
Goblet
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Want
Understand
Language
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
― Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin
Whole
Pledged
Meeting