“ A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the s… Mikhail Lermontov
“ LonelinessIt's Hell for us to draw the fettersOf life in alienation, stiff.All people prefer to share gladness,And nobody - to share grief.As a king of air, I'm lone here,The pain lives in my heart, s… Mikhail Lermontov
“ Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. Mikhail Lermontov
“ There is no feminine gaze that I would not forget at the sight of mountains covered with curly vegetation, and illumined by the southern sun, at the sight of the blue sky, or at the sound of a torrent… Mikhail Lermontov
“ I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never discovered it and was carried away by the allurements of empty, un-rewarding passions. I was tempered in… Mikhail Lermontov
“ I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's experi… Mikhail Lermontov
“ The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation Mikhail Lermontov
“ 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 a… Mikhail Lermontov
“ 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 lo… Mikhail Lermontov
“ I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived according to the head, not the heart. I consider and analyze my personal passions and actions with a strict… Mikhail Lermontov
