Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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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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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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