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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Feeling Life Misery Myself Reason
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Audience Born Failure Myself Success World
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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Learning Love Myself Ready Understand World
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
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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Achievement Glory Happiness Ignorance Oneself People Success
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
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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Eyes Laughter People Place Sorrow
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Commitment Demand Novel Survive
If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Life People Thinking Worry
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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Beginning Calm River Sea Water Way
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Creation Hope Prepare Terrible Youth
And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Death Foreign Live Myself Orphan Slave
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin

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