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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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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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