Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

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• I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Hate, World, Ready For Love

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• He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Dream, Storm, Madness

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• What is this eternity to me without you?
  What is the infinity of my domains?
  Empty ringing words,
  A spacious temple - without a divinity!

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Infinity, Temples, Divinity

  "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.

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• An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Unusual, Ends

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• Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Mikhail Lermontov (2009). “A Hero Of Our Time”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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• Women love only those whom they do not know!

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Knows

  Mikhail Lermontov (2012). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• We almost always forgive those we understand.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Forgiving

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• Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Heart, Decision, Feelings

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• Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Fire, Fuel

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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.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Christian, Blood, Enemy

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• No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Men, Old Friends, Forget

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• What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Home, Loss, Men

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• 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.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Heart, Dreamer, Mind

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• Happiness comes the way the wind blows.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Blow, Wind, Way

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• In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Eye, People, Sin

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• I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  World, Triumph, Born

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• I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Children, Hate, Evil

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• I want to reconcile myself with heaven,
  I want to love, I want to pray,
  I want to believe in good.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Believe, Heaven, Want

  "The Demon". Poem by Mikhail Lermontov, 1830.

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• If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Worry, People, Littles

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• Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Two Friends, Facts, Slave

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.95, Xist Publishing

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• Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Air, Drunk, Magic

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• my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Soul, My Soul

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• A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Heart, Strange, Humans

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Feelings, Denial, Miserable

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• In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Eye, Evil, Profound

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