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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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Life People Thinking Worry
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin
I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Audience Born Failure Myself Success World
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Commitment Demand Novel Survive
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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Learning Love Myself Ready Understand World
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
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
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Feeling Life Misery Myself Reason
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
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
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Forget Friendship Goodness Man Myself
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Afraid Bury Death Decision Feeling Heart Myself
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
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Fire Fuel Love

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