We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAfraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
More Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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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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We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Women only love those that they don’t know.
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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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If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
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In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
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Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
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