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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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Divine Empty Forever Ring Temple Word
My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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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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Life People Thinking Worry
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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Learning Love Myself Ready Understand World
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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Acknowledge Fact Friendship Himself Slave
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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Death Foreign Live Myself Orphan Slave
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Forgiveness Human Nature Understand
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Creation Hope Prepare Terrible Youth
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Crime Despair Himself
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual

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