Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVFor what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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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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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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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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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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What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
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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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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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