We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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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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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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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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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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