Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOf two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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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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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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