Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVA strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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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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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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