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Alexander Pushkin
Age: 37 †
Born: 1799
Born: June 6
Died: 1837
Died: February 10
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
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I loved you even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.
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Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
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Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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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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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
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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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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
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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.
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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.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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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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Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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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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A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
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Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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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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