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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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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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Beginning Calm River Sea Water Way
And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Death Foreign Live Myself Orphan Slave
My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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Achievement Glory Happiness Ignorance Oneself People Success
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Dreams Himself Madness Peace Prayer Storm
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Commitment Demand Novel Survive
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Crime Despair Himself
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
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Acknowledge Fact Friendship Himself Slave
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Creation Hope Prepare Terrible Youth
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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Evil Experience Happiness Pleasure
Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Carry Feeling Ideas Life Oneself Storm
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself

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