We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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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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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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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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