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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

Mikhail Lermontov

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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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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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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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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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