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We almost always forgive those we understand.

Mikhail Lermontov

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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Feeling Life Misery Myself Reason
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Forget Friendship Goodness Man Myself
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Fire Fuel Love
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
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
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Audience Born Failure Myself Success World
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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Acknowledge Fact Friendship Himself Slave
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Creation Hope Prepare Terrible Youth
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
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Heart Human Strange Woman
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Afraid Bury Death Decision Feeling Heart Myself

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