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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

Mikhail Lermontov

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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul
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
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
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
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
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
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
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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Believe Goodness Heaven Love Myself Prayer
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
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Dreams Himself Madness Peace Prayer Storm
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Crime Despair Himself
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Commitment Demand Novel Survive
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
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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Divine Empty Forever Ring Temple Word

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