“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
“A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.”
A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)
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Mikhail Lermontov 34
Russian writer, poet and painter 1814–1841Related quotes
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