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I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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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
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
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
Women love only those whom they do not 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
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
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Forgiveness Human Nature Understand
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Excuse Practical Understand
My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul
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
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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Creation Hope Prepare Terrible Youth
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

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