Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVFor what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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