3 Aleksandr Pushkin Quotes on Choice

Aleksandr Pushkin quotes on choice

1. The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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23. '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.'

24. 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.