Novels, Tales, Journeys Quotes

“To “seek inspiration” has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For”
― Alexander Pushkin, Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

“Marya Gavrilovna had been brought up on French novels and, consequently, was in love.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

“People believe only in fame and do not understand that there might be among them some Napoleon, who has never commanded a single company of chasseurs, or another Descartes, who has not published a single line in the Moscow Telegraph. However, our respect for fame may well come from vanity: our own voice, too, goes into the making of fame.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

“Imaginary evil is romantic, varied; real evil is dreary, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

“The History of the Village of Goryukhino”
― Alexander Pushkin, Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin

“The notion of a Golden Age is common to all peoples and shows only that people are never satisfied with the present; having little hope for the future, from experience, they adorn the irrevocable past with all the colors of their imagination.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin