He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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