My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVO vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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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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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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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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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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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Women love only those whom they do not know!
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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