For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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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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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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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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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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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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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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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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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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