Quotes from Alexander Pushkin

Though a gamester at heart, he never touched a card, for he considered his position did not allow him—as he said— to risk the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

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

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.

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

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.

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.

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.

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

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

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.

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 gaze forward without fear.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.