Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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“Ja volim samoubilacki-krvnicki nemilosrdno i brutalno. Necu drugacije. Ko to moze da izdrzi, a upoznah samo jednog. Moja je krv moj put do tebe.”
— Alexander Pushkin —
“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
— Alexander Pushkin
“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”
— Alexander Pushkin
“My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you ...”
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
“I was not born to amuse the Tsars.”
— Alexander Pushkin
“Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.”
— Alexander Pushkin
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
— Alexander Pushkin
People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
— Alexander Pushkin
“Epression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.”
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]”
— Alexander Pushkin
It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.
— Alexander Pushkin
And these days I've come to prefer the more steady Bordeaux. I am no longer up to champagne from Ay: it's like a mistress: sparkling, flighty, vivacious, wayward - and not to be trusted. But Bordeaux is like a friend who in time of trouble and misfortune stands by us always, anywhere, ready to give us help, or just to share our quiet leisure. So raise your glasses - to our friend Bordeaux!
— Alexander Pushkin
“The less we love her when we woo her,
The more we draw a woman in,”
— Alexander Pushkin
“We've got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden's joys for us are moot.”
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
What is renoun?more false than hope by dreams engendered.
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
I've lived to se my longings die
I've lived to se my longings die:
My dreams and I have grown apart;
Now only sorrow haunts my eye,
The wages of a bitter heart.
Beneath the storms of hostile fate,
My flowery wreath has faded fast;
I live alone and sadly wait
To see when death will come at last.
Just so, when the winds in winter moan
And snow descends in frigid flakes,
Upon a naked branch, alone,
The final leaf of summer shakes! ...
— Alexander Pushkin
“I gaze forward without fear.”
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
He's happy now, he's almost sane.
— Alexander Pushkin
“Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.”
— Alexander Pushkin
We live without power of law, like flocks of ravens
they come and sweep over the land.
— Alexander Pushkin
“Enough! Clear-souled and far from wasted,
I start upon an untrod way
To take my rest from yesterday.”
— Alexander Pushkin
Ja volim samoubilacki-krvnicki nemilosrdno i brutalno. Necu drugacije. Ko to moze da izdrzi, a upoznah samo jednog. 'Moja je krv moj put do tebe.
— Alexander Pushkin
It was thought that the confession of the accused was indispensable to his condemnation, an idea not only unreasonable, but contrary to the most simple good sense in matters of jurisprudence; for if the denial of the accused is not accepted as proof of his innocence, the confession which is torn from him by torture ought to serve still less as proof of his guilt.
— Alexander Pushkin
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
— Alexander Pushkin
“I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.”
— Alexander Pushkin
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
“Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.”
— Alexander Pushkin
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...
— Alexander Pushkin
“As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.”
— Alexander Pushkin
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
— Alexander Pushkin
“Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.”
— Alexander Pushkin
“Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.”
— Alexander Pushkin
“Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.”
— Alexander Pushkin
— Alexander Pushkin
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