I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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