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More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
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.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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.
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
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.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
