Selected excerpts from A Hero of our Times, where the protagonist, Grigory Pechorin, offers his cynical views on life, love and power.
“ ... Yes, I have already passed that point in my spiritual life, when one searches only for happiness, with the heart feels the need to love someone strongly and passionately. Now I only want to be loved, and by many at that; it even seems to me that I would be satisfied with one constant affection: a sad habit of the heart!”
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