I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
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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My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
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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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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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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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Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
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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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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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In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
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A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
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