We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOut of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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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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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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