Alexander Pushkin

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

“I want to understand you,

I study your obscure language.”

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

“I’ve lived to bury my desires,

And see my dreams corrode with rust;

Now all that’s left are fruitless fires

That burn my empty heart to dust.”

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

“My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

“Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

“Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.”

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

"Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool."

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

"Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse."

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

"Write for pleasure and publish for money."

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

"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."

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

"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."

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

"Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family." (in a letter to his wife)

—Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)