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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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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Historian
Librettist
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Serge'evich 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.
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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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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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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.
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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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