Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

- Alexander Pushkin

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

- Alexander Pushkin

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

- Alexander Pushkin

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.

- Alexander Pushkin

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

- Alexander Pushkin

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

- Alexander Pushkin

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

- Alexander Pushkin

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

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

- Alexander Pushkin