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I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived accordi...

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There is no feminine gaze that I would not forget at the sight of mountains covered with curly veget...

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I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

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We practically always excuse things when we understand them

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

A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to n...

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The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story o...

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I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never disco...

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I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobo...

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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has t...

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LonelinessIt's Hell for us to draw the fettersOf life in alienation, stiff.All people prefer to shar...

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I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help ...

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

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

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Mikhail Lermontov

Writer

Born: 1814-10-15

Died: 1841-07-27

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (October 15, 1814 – July 27, 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest figure in Russian Romanticism. His influence on later Russian literature is still felt in modern times, not only through his poetry, but also through his prose, which founded the tradition of the Russian psychological novel.More