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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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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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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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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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