What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVLove, like fire, goes out without fuel.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIf only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVO vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAfraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOne should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWomen love only those whom they do not know!
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMany a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHe in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVEvil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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