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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

Mikhail Lermontov

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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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

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