Women only love those that they don’t know.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAnd I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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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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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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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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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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