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 LermontovMy whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
Mikhail Lermontov