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’.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Tag Archives: Aleksandr Pushkin
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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn’t take their fancy.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The characteristics of our romantics are to understand everything, to see everything and to see it often incomparably more clearly than our most realistic minds see it; to refuse to accept anyone or anything, but at the same time not to despise anything.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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