Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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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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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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