Aleksandr Pushkin Quotes on Choice
-
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
-
'I have come to you against my wish,' she said in a firm voice: 'but I have been ordered to grant your request. Three, seven, ace, will win for you if played in succession, but only on these conditions: that you do not play more than one card in twenty-four hours, and that you never play again during the rest of your life. I forgive you my death, on condition that you marry my companion, Lizaveta Ivanovna.'
-
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.