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

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

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

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