Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe almost always forgive those we understand.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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