If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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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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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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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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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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