More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,
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.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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.
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.
