O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe almost always forgive those we understand.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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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 want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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