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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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Evil Experience Happiness Pleasure
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Feeling Life Misery Myself Reason
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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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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Learning Love Myself Ready Understand World
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Forget Friendship Goodness Man Myself
And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Death Foreign Live Myself Orphan Slave
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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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
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Fire Fuel Love
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
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
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Audience Born Failure Myself Success World
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual

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