I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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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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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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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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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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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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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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