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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 Lermontov

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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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Divine Empty Forever Ring Temple Word
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
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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Learning Love Myself Ready Understand World
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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Fire Fuel Love
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Crime Despair Himself
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
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
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Dreams Himself Madness Peace Prayer Storm
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
If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Life People Thinking Worry

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