Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

Can It Be, Thought I, That My Sole Mission On Earth Is To Destroy The Hopes Of Others? Ever Since I Began To Live And Act, Fate Has Somehow Associated Me With The Last Act Of Other People's Tragedies, As If Without Me No One Could Either Die Or Give Way To Despair! I Have Been The Inevitable Character Who Comes In At The Final Act, Involuntarily Playing The Detestable Role Of The Hangman Or The Traitor. What Has Been Fate's Object In All This? Has It Destined Me To Be The Author Of Middle-class Tragedies And Family Romances
or A Purveyor Of Tales For, Say, The Reader's Library? Who Knows? Are There Not Many Who Begin Life By Aspiring To End It Like Alexander The Great, Or Lord Byron, And Yet Remain Petty Civil Servants All Their Lives?

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