And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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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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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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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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