If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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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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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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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