More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.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.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
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.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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.
