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Alexander Pushkin Quotes: If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
         

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.


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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.



Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.



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

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



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.

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.



Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.



Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.



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.

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.



Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.



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

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



I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.





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I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.

I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.



As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

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