Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow.

Alexander Pushkin Quotes

1. “Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.”
— Alexander Pushkin

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

3. “Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.”
— Alexander Pushkin

4. “If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.”
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5. “Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.”
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6. “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

7. “It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.”
— Alexander Pushkin

8. “My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you…”
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9. “With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.”
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10. “I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.”
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11. “Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
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12. “Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.”
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13. “Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.”
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14. “As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.”
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15. “Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.”
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16. “Thus people – so it seems to me – Become good friends from sheer ennui.”
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17. “Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.”
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18. “My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”
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19. “I was not born to amuse the Tsars.”
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20. “Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.”
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21. “Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”
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22. “I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.”
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23. “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

24. “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.”
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25. “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.”
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26. “In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.”
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27. “Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.”
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28. “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

29. “Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane…”
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30. “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.”
— Alexander Pushkin

31. “Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.”
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32. “I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.”
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33. “Write for pleasure and publish for money.”
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34. “Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.”
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35. “Whoever the priest is, he is called Father.”
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36. “Such a beginning presaged nothing good. However, I lost neither courage nor hope. I turned to the consolation of all those in distress, and for the first time tasted the sweetness of prayer, poured forth from a pure but riven heart. I fell asleep serenely, unworried as to what was to become of me.”
— Alexander Pushkin

37. “He’s happy now, he’s almost sane.”
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38. “Moral commonplaces are amazingly useful when we can find little in ourselves with which to justify our actions.”
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39. “I would make my home, with joy and gladness, in a dark forest.”
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40. “I gaze forward without fear.”
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41. “Young man! If my notes should fall into your hands, remember that the best and most enduring changes are those which stem from an improvement in moral behaviour, without any violent upheaval.”
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42. “To “seek inspiration” has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For.”
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43. “We’ve got to have forbidden fruit, Or Eden’s joys for us are moot.”
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44. “Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory.”
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45. “From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs.”
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46. “But really, this is no great sorrow, particularly, you’ll agree, when wine’s imported duty-free.”
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47. “Take care of your clothes when they’re new, but your honour from a tender age.”
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48. “Within my song, safe from the worm, my spirit will survive.”
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49. “You interpret my heart, my nature, as you wish to believe it. In truth, I have no secret longing to be saved from myself.”
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50. “She craves romance. She dreams that she is the heroine of every book she reads.”
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51. “I have become well versed in magic.”
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52. “Imaginary evil is romantic, varied; real evil is dreary, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
— Alexander Pushkin