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

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

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

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

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

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 ….

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths..

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..

I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless….

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse..

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

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

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

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..

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 phil….

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

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

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

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths..

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul..

I was not born to amuse the Tsars..