Frases de Alexandre S. Pushkin

„Perder a razão é uma coisa terrível. Antes morrer. A um morto consideramos com respeito, rezamos por ele. A morte fá-lo igual a todos. Enquanto um homem privado da sua razão deixou de ser homem.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

Fonte: "Russalka"

„A palavra de um poeta é a essência do seu ser.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„A ilusão que nos exalta é mais querida a nós que dez mil verdades.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„Genialidade e maldade não combinam.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

гений и злодейство две вещи несовместные
citado em Пушкин и русский романтизм - Página 182, Борис Соломонович Мейлах - Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1937, 293 páginas

„Gosto mais do engano que nos eleva
do que das verdades obscuras e baixas.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„O céu deu-nos o hábito, bom substituto da felicidade.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„A subtileza ainda não é inteligência. Às vezes os tolos e os loucos também são extraordinariamente subtis.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„Todos dizem: 'Não há justiça na terra.' Mas também não há justiça lá no alto!“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„O respeito pelo passado, eis o traço que distingue a instrução da barbárie; as tribos nômades não possuem nem história, nem nobreza.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

Variante: O respeito pelo passado - eis o traço que distingue a instrução da barbárie; as tribos nómadas não possuem nem história, nem nobreza.

„Amar? Para quê? Por um tempo, não vale a pena.
E, para sempre, é impossível.“

—  Alexandre S. Pushkin

„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.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro Eugene Onegin

Fonte: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 1, st. 25.

„Send me, Almighty, I petition,
In porticoes or at a ball
No bonneted academician,
No seminarist in a yellow shawl!
No more than in red lips unsmiling
Can I find anything beguiling
In grammar-perfect Russian speech.
What purist magazines beseech,
A novel breed of belles may heed it,
And bend us (for my life of sin)
To strict grammatic discipline,
Prescribing meter, too, where needed;
But I - what is all this to me?
I like things as they used to be“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro Eugene Onegin

Fonte: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 3, st. 28. (Translated by Walter Arndt in Eugene Onegin (2009). Penguin.

„Like some magistrate grown gray in office,
Calmly he contemplates alike the just
And unjust, with indifference he notes
Evil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, Boris Godunov

Boris Godunov (1825)

„Ace has won!" cried Hermann, showing his card.
"Your queen has lost," said Chekalinsky, politely.
Hermann started; instead of an ace, there lay before him the queen of spades! He could not believe his eyes, nor could he understand how he had made such a mistake.
At that moment it seemed to him that the queen of spades smiled ironically and winked her eye at him. He was struck by her remarkable resemblance…
"The old Countess!“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro The Queen of Spades

he exclaimed, seized with terror.
VI.
The Queen of Spades (1833)

„When the loud day for men who sow and reap
Grows still, and on the silence of the town
The insubstantial veils of night and sleep,
The meed of the day's labour, settle down,
Then for me in the stillness of the night
The wasting, watchful hours drag on their course,
And in the idle darkness comes the bite
Of all the burning serpents of remorse;
Dreams seethe; and fretful infelicities
Are swarming in my over-burdened soul,
And Memory before my wakeful eyes
With noiseless hand unwinds her lengthy scroll.
Then, as with loathing I peruse the years,
I tremble, and I curse my natal day,
Wail bitterly, and bitterly shed tears,
But cannot wash the woeful script away.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin

Remembrance.

„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.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro Eugene Onegin

Fonte: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 1, st. 59.

„Pimen [writing in front of a sacred lamp]:
One more, the final record, and my annals
Are ended, and fulfilled the duty laid
By God on me a sinner. Not in vain
Hath God appointed me for many years
A witness, teaching me the art of letters;
A day will come when some laborious monk
Will bring to light my zealous, nameless toil,
Kindle, as I, his lamp, and from the parchment
Shaking the dust of ages will transcribe
My true narrations.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, Boris Godunov

(Variant translation):
One more story, just one more,
And then my history's completed,
All my chronicles written down
And my sinner's debt repaid to God.
Not for nothing.
The Lord appointed me to bear witness
For many many years and it was he
Taught me the art of creating books.
One day, in the far future,
some hard-working monk
Will find my painstaking,
anonymous writings.
He'll light his lamp,
as I light mine,
He'lll shake the dust of centuries from these scrolls.
Then he'll copy out, carefully, these true accounts,
So the descendants of today's Christians
May know the past of their native land
Remember their mighty Tsars warmly
For their glory and their knidness
And our Lord's mercy on their sins and crimes.
In my old age I live my life anew.
Pushkin, Alexander (2012). Pushkin's Boris Gudunov. Oberon Books.
Boris Godunov (1825)

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

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, livro Eugene Onegin

Fonte: Eugene Onegin (1823), Ch. 2, st. 31.

„Upon the brink of the wild stream
He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.“

—  Aleksandr Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman (1833) trans. Charles Johnston.