And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHe in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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