And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOut of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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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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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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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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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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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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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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