You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.
Mikhail LermontovHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail LermontovIn simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.
Mikhail LermontovAfraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
Mikhail Lermontov