In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOut of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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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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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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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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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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