Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAnd I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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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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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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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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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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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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