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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

Mikhail Lermontov

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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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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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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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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 practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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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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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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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
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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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