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Quotes from Eugene Onegin — Aleksandr Pushkin

1799–1837 Russia

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A man who's active and incisive
can yet keep nail-care much in mind:
why fight what's known to be decisive?
custom is despot of mankind.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

The clock of doom had struck as fated;
the poet, without a sound,
let fall his pistol on the ground.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

Always contented with his life,
and with his dinner, and his wife.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

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 philandery.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

Sad that our finest aspiration
Our freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

The illness with which he'd been smitten
should have been analysed when caught,
something like spleen, that scourge of Britain,
or Russia's chondria, for short.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather
of mind got clarity new-found;
now free, I once more weave together
emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

Moscow... how many strains are fusing
in that one sound, for Russian hearts!
what store of riches it imparts!

Eugene Onegin (1823)

Unforced, as conversation passed,
he had the talent of saluting
felicitously every theme,
of listening like a judge-supreme
while serious topics were disputing,
or, with an epigram-surprise,
of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes.

Eugene Onegin (1823)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aleksandr Pushkin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.