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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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