Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAnd I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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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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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Women only love those that they don’t 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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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