Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIn people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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