One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIf only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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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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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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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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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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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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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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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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