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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

Mikhail Lermontov

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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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