A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVFor what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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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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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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