Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
Mikhail Lermontov Quotes
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.
1725I 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 experience is shed from us and the soul becomes anew what it once was and will surely be again
4220A 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 soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.
2451The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation
4453No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend
1544I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.
2813I have observed that there always exists some strange relationship between the appearance of a man and his soul, as if with the loss of a limb, the soul lost one of its senses.
2162De geschiedenis van een mensenziel , zelfs van de allergeringste, is haast belangwekkender en leerrijker dan de geschiedenis van een geheel volk, vooral wanneer zij het resultaat is van een heldere geest, en wanneer zij geschreven is zonder ijdele wens bewondering en sympathie op te wekken.
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