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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Forgiveness Human Nature Understand
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
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
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
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
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
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin
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
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
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
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
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Forget Friendship Goodness Man Myself
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Commitment Demand Novel Survive

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