Michail Jurjewitsch Lermontow
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
— A Hero of Our Time (1840; rev. 1841)
Michail Jurjewitsch Lermontow (russisch Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов; wissenschaftliche Transliteration Michail Jur'evič Lermontov; * 3. Oktoberjul. / 15. Oktober 1814greg., Moskau; † 15. Julijul. / 27. Juli 1841greg. im Duell in Pjatigorsk) war ein russischer Dichter. Neben Alexander Puschkin und Fjodor Tjuttschew ist er in der russischen Literatur einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Romantik.
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
I would make any sacrifice but this; twenty times I can stake my life, even my honour, but my freedom I shall never sell. Why do I prize it so much? … What am I aiming at?
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
The public of this country is so youthful, not to say simple-minded, that it cannot understand the meaning of a fable unless the moral is set forth at the end.
Die sechs Teilsignale hinter dem Fame-Score und ihre Ränge in den Ranglisten.
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