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Alexander Pushkin Quotes: Please never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
         

Please never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.


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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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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.



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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.

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