Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.
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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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Sin is cosmic treason
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That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence - hard work.
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In people's eyes I read Pages of malice and sin.
