Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
Mikhail Lermontov
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Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.
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No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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For what did the creator prepare me,
Why did he so terribly contradict
The hopes of my youth?
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You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.
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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
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And I, as I lived, in an alien land
Will die a slave and an orphan.
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My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
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It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.
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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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I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.
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Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.
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