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

Mikhail Lermontov

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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Dreams Himself Madness Peace Prayer Storm
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
We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Forgiveness Human Nature Understand
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Crime Despair Himself
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
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
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Heart Human Strange Woman
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin
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
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
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
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
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
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Afraid Bury Death Decision Feeling Heart Myself
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

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