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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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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
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
If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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Life People Thinking Worry
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
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
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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Achievement Glory Happiness Ignorance Oneself People Success
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
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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Commitment Demand Novel Survive
Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Blow Happiness Way Wind
My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul
Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
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Afraid Bury Death Decision Feeling Heart Myself
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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Belief Earth Power Yourself
Women love only those whom they do not know!
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Love Unknown Woman
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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Beginning End Unusual
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Dreams Himself Madness Peace Prayer Storm
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage

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