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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Pushkin
Age: 37 †
Born: 1799
Born: June 6
Died: 1837
Died: February 10
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Book Collector
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Essayist
Historian
Librettist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Serge'evich Pushkin
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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.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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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.
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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.
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Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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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.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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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)
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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