We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWhat is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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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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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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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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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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