We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappiness comes the way the wind blows.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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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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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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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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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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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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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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