Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Alexander Pushkin

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

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.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.