Alexander Pushkin Messages

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

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

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

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

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

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.