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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

Mikhail Lermontov

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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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Acknowledge Fact Friendship Himself Slave
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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Evil Experience Happiness Pleasure
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Commitment Demand Novel Survive
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Forget Friendship Goodness Man Myself
Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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Carry Feeling Ideas Life Oneself Storm
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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Divine Empty Forever Ring Temple Word
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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Believe Goodness Heaven Love Myself Prayer
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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Eyes Myself People Sin
Women only love those that they don’t know.
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Love Unknown Woman
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Feeling Life Misery Myself Reason
And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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Death Foreign Live Myself Orphan Slave
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
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Crime Despair Himself
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Fire Fuel Love

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