Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVA strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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