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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.

Mikhail Lermontov

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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
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
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
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
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
Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Love Unknown Woman
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
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
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
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Heart Human Strange Woman
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
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
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
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

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