Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVNo good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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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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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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