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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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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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I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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