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Book Collector Inspirational Quotes (82)

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Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
Alexander Pushkin
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Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
Alexander Pushkin
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The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
Alexander Pushkin
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
Alexander Pushkin
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Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
Alexander Pushkin
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If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
Alexander Pushkin
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
Alexander Pushkin
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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
Alexander Pushkin
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In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
Alexander Pushkin
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To love all ages yield surrender But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
Alexander Pushkin
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
Alexander Pushkin
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
Alexander Pushkin
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
Alexander Pushkin
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
Alexander Pushkin
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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.
Alexander Pushkin
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
Alexander Pushkin
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Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
Alexander Pushkin
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
Alexander Pushkin
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
Alexander Pushkin
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Those revolutions are not strictly incessant they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as a whole works incessantly however, in the sense that there always is either revolution or absorption of the results of revolution, both together forming what are known as business cycles.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
Alexander Pushkin
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The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
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