“But there is an unbounded pleasure to be had in the possession of a young, newly blossoming soul! It is like a flower, from which the best aroma evaporates when meeting the first ray of the sun; you must pluck… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no longer capable of loosing my… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
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… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“I have an unfortunate character; whether it is my upbringing that made me like that or God who created me so, I do not… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing. — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life.… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“Moja je pusta mladost protekla u borbi sa samim sobom i sa svijetom; bojeći se poruge, pokopao sam svoje najbolje osjećaje na dnu srca;… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
