Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAfraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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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 whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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