Frases de Mikhail Lermontov

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Mikhail Lermontov

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Frases Mikhail Lermontov

„Un héroe de nuestro tiempo", muy señores míos, es, efectivamente, un retrato, pero no el de un hombre solo: es un registro constituido por los vicios, en pleno desarrollo, de toda nuestra generación. Volveréis a objetarme que un hombre no puede ser tan malvado; a lo cual replicaré que, si habéis creído en la posible existencia de tanto malhechor trágico y romántico, ¿por qué no admitís la realidad de un Pechorin? Si admirasteis invenciones mucho más terribles y monstruosas, ¿por qué ese carácter, incluso como invención, no gana de vuestra indulgencia? ¿No será, acaso, porque hay en él más verdad de lo que quisierais?

Me diréis que la moralidad no gana con ello. Disculpadme: se han venido sirviendo a las gentes demasiadas golosinas; por eso tienen estropeados los estómagos: se precisan medicamentos amargos, verdades acerbas.“

— Mikhail Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time

„Yes, such has been my lot since childhood. Everyone read signs of non-existent evil traits in my features. But since they were expected to be there, they did make their appearance. Because I was reserved, they said I was sly, so I grew reticent. I was keenly aware of good and evil, but instead of being indulged I was insulted and so I became spiteful. I was sulky while other children were merry and talkative, but though I felt superior to them I was considered inferior. So I grew envious. I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate. My cheerless youth passed in conflict with myself and society, and fearing ridicule I buried my finest feelings deep in my heart, and there they died. I spoke the truth, but nobody believed me, so I began to practice duplicity. Having come to know society and its mainsprings, I became versed in the art of living and saw how others were happy without that proficiency, enjoying for free the favors I had so painfully striven for. It was then that despair was born in my heart--not the despair that is cured with a pistol, but a cold, impotent desperation, concealed under a polite exterior and a good-natured smile. I became a moral cripple; I had lost one half of my soul, for it had shriveled, dried up and died, and I had cut it off and cast it away, while the other half stirred and lived, adapted to serve every comer. No one noticed this, because no one suspected there had been another half. Now, however, you have awakened memories of it in me, and what I have just done is to read its epitaph to you. Many regard all epitaphs as ridiculous, but I do not, particularly when I remember what rests beneath them.“

— Mikhail Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time

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