For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVO vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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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.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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