In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWhat 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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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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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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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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