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To be to somebody the cause of sufferings and joys, without any sort of positive right, - isn't that the most sweet food of our pride? What is happiness? Intense pride.

Ambition is nothing but lust for power, and my first pleasure is to subjugate to my will all that surrounds me; to excite a feeling of love, devotion and fear - is the first sign and the greatest triumph of power?

There are immense delight in the possession of a young, barely blooming soul! It is like a flower, which the best flavor evaporates towards the first ray of the sun; it is necessary to rip at this moment and they breathed their fill, throw on the way: maybe someone will get it.

The restless need for love which torments us in the early years of youth, casts us from one woman to another until we find one that can't stand us: here begins our constancy - the true endless passion can be expressed mathematically by a line falling from a point in space; the secret of this infinity - only in failing to achieve the goal, that is the end.

Music after dinner lulls and sleep after lunch, cool: therefore, I love music in medical terms.

You men do not understand the pleasures of the eyes, shake hands, and I swear to you, I'm listening to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most hot kisses can't replace it.

Women! women! who can understand them? Their smiles contradict their eyes, their words promise and beckon, and the sound of their voice repels... they will in a minute comprehend and guess our most secret thought, I do not understand the clearest hints...

Should never reject a penitent criminal: in a fit of despair he may become twice more criminal... and then...

Where there is a society of women - there is now a higher and a lower circle.

No women's eyes that I hadn't forgotten at the sight of curly the mountains, illuminated by the southern sun, under the blue sky or listening to the noise of the stream falling from rock to rock.

I have already passed that period of spiritual life when only searching for happiness, when the heart feels the need to love strongly and passionately for someone - now I just want to be loved, and that is very few; even I think, one of constant attachment to me would be a pretty pathetic habit of the heart!..

Strange thing the human heart in General, and women in particular!

The Princess seems to be one of those women who want to be amused; if two minutes in a row it will be next to you bored, you've lost irretrievably: your silence ought to excite her curiosity, your conversation is never to satisfy it completely; you should alarm her every minute; ten times publicly for you to disregard the opinion and call it a sacrifice, and so reward yourself for it, will be to torture you - and then just say she doesn't like you. If you're over her will not get power, even her first kiss will not give you the right to second; she with thee will Nakonechnaya plenty, and two years later would marry a freak of obedience to the mother, and will assure herself that she was unhappy that she was only human and loved, that is you, but the sky didn't want to connect it with him because he was wearing a soldier's cloak, although beneath that thick, grey cloak beat a heart, passionate and noble...

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, not adding to her thoughts of marriage; and Platonic love is restless.