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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
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
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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Divine Empty Forever Ring Temple Word
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
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
We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Forgiveness Human Nature Understand
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Love Unknown Woman
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
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
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
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
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

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