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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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Creation Hope Prepare Terrible Youth
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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