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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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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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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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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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