More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
