Michael Alexander Job

“I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls