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

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

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.

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