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“Women only love those that they don’t know.”

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A renowned Russian writer, poet, and literary critic. His works are characterized by their profound thoughtfulness and artistic value, and have had a profound impact on Russian literature. more

“I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.”

Mind Heart Made Whole Life Is Desire Passionate Whole Life Enthusiasm Chains Contradiction Dreamer Heart And Mind Freeze Unsuccessful Dealings Sluggish Midwinter

Author:Mikhail Lermontov

“Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.”

Giving Firsts Evil Understanding Pleasure Torture Spawn

Author:Mikhail Lermontov

“Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.”

Knows Wells Stopping Witchcraft

Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

“Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.”

Air Reader Publishers Castles Inns Castles In The Air

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Every new time will give its law.”

Giving Law

Author:Maxim Gorky

“If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.”

People Ifs Men Soul Hard Natural Accepting Wake Up Deny Bitter Torture Misfortunes Trance Bitter Truth

Author:Maxim Gorky

“If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Willing Sorry

Author:Kevin Costner

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