A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVA strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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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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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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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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