Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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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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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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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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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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