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Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.
Mikhail Lermontov
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Mikhail Lermontov
Age: 27 †
Born: 1814
Born: January 1
Died: 1841
Died: July 27
Artist
Military Officer
Novelist
Painter
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Michail Jur'evič Lermontov
Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich Lermontov
Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов
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And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.
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I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
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There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now and the second . . . the second?
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For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradictThe hopes of my youth?
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