“Women! Women! Who can understand them? Their smiles contradict their glances, their words promise and allure, but the tone of their voice repels.”

— Mikhail Lermontov , book A Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)

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Russian writer, poet and painter 1814–1841

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