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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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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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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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