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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Mikhail Lermontov

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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Carry Feeling Ideas Life Oneself Storm
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
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
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Forget Friendship Goodness Man Myself
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
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
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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Beginning Calm River Sea Water Way
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
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
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
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
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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Achievement Glory Happiness Ignorance Oneself People Success
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
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Fire Fuel Love
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
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
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
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
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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Believe Goodness Heaven Love Myself Prayer
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
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Commitment Demand Novel Survive
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul

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