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

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Dream, Storm, Madness

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An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

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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.

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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!

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Knows

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

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

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Heart, Decision, Feelings

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We almost always forgive those we understand.

Mikhail Lermontov

Forgiving

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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

Mikhail Lermontov

Fire, Fuel

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

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Men, Old Friends, Forget

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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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Christian, Blood, Enemy

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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.

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Heart, Dreamer, Mind

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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.

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Blow, Wind, Way

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

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Eye, People, Sin

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

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World, Triumph, Born

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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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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.

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Air, Drunk, Magic

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

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Two Friends, Facts, Slave

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

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

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Soul, My Soul

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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.

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Eye, Evil, Profound

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

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Heart, Strange, Humans

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

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We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

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Commitment, Novelty

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Born: October 15, 1814
Died: July 27, 1841
Occupation: Writer
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