Top 78 Alexander Pushkin Quotes
#1. But whom to love?
To trust and treasure?
Who won't betray us in the end?
And who'll be kind enough to measure
Our words and deeds as we intend?
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#2. 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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
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#3. Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.
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#4. Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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#5. 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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#6. He who has lived and thought can't help
despising people in his soul;
him who has felt disturbs
the ghost of irrecoverable days;
for him there are no more enchantments;
him does the snake of memories,
him does repentance bite.
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#7. I am not in the position to sacrifice the essentials of life in the hope of acquiring the luxuries. -Pushkin
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#9. Enough! Clear-souled and far from wasted,
I start upon an untrod way
To take my rest from yesterday.
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#10. In alien lands I keep the body
Of ancient native rites and things:
I gladly free a little birdie
At celebration of the spring.
I'm now free for consolation,
And thankful to almighty Lord:
At least, to one of his creations
I've given freedom in this world!
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#12. Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of all human virtues, and the excuse for every possible fault.
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#13. Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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#14. It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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#16. 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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#17. It's now the British Muse's fables That lie on maidens' bedside tables And haunt their dreams. They worship now The Vampire with his pensive brow,
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#18. Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]
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#19. Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
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#20. Moscow ... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts!
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#21. 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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#23. 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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#24. Such a beginning presaged nothing good. However, I lost neither courage nor hope. I turned to the consolation of all those in distress, and for the first time tasted the sweetness of prayer, poured forth from a pure but riven heart. I fell asleep serenely, unworried as to what was to become of me.
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#25. If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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#26. 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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#28. The less we love her when we woo her,
The more we draw a woman in,
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#29. Fickle as water,
our life is as dreamlike as smoke
- at our expense,
fate's private joke.
-The Bronze Horseman
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#30. Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...
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#31. But flaming youth in all it's madness
Keeps nothing of its heart concealed:
It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness,
Are babbled out and soon revealed.
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#32. Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
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#33. I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable reason, 'between dog and wolf'.
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#34. 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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#35. 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.
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#36. We've got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden's joys for us are moot.
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#37. Ever peaceful be you slumber
Though your days were few in number
On this earth-spite took its toll-
Yet shall heaven have your soul
With pure love we did regard you
For your loved one did we guard you
But you came not to the groom
Only to a chill dark tomb
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#38. God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
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#39. Moral commonplaces are amazingly useful when we can find little in ourselves with which to justify our actions.
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#40. As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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#41. We live without power of law, like flocks of ravens
they come and sweep over the land.
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#42. Young man! If my notes should fall into your hands, remember that the best and most enduring changes are those which stem from an improvement in moral behaviour, without any violent upheaval.
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#43. Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory
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#45. 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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#46. To "seek inspiration" has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For
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#49. 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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#50. A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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#51. 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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#52. We still, alas, cannot forestall it-
This dreadful ailment's heavy toll;
The spleen is what the English call it,
We call it simply, Russian soul.
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#53. 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.
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#57. I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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#58. Thus heaven's gift to us is this:
That habit takes the place of bliss.
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#60. 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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#61. For one can live in friendship
With verses and with cards, with Plato and with wine,
And hide beneath the gentle cover of our playful pranks
A noble heart and mind.
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#62. With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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#63. Thus people
so it seems to me
Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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#64. My goddesses! Where now? Forsaken?
Oh hearken to my call, I rue:
Are you the same? Have others taken
Your place without replacing you?
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#65. Epression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
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#66. Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.
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#67. Habit to us is given from above:
it is a substitute for happiness.
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#69. Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather
of mind got clarity new-found;
now free, I once more weave together
emotion, thought, and magic sound.
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#70. 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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#72. 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.
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#73. Admittedly, his dinners consisted only of two or three courses, and were prepared by an ex-soldier, but the champagne flowed like water.
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#75. Sauvage, sad, silent,
as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling.
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#76. Sometimes, all company forsaking,
They settle to a game of chess
And, leaning on a table, guess
What move the other may be making,
And Lensky with a dreamy look,
Allows his pawn to take his rook.
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#77. 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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#78. My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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