More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
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.
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.
