Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVO vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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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 was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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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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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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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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