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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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Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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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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