We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe practically always excuse things when we understand them.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAnd I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVA strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe almost always forgive those we understand.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWhat is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAn unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWomen only love those that they don’t know.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVFor what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOut of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappiness comes the way the wind blows.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIn people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV