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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.”
― Lermontov, Un Héros de notre temps. (précédé de) La Princesse Ligovskoï

“What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.”
― Mikhail Lermontov

“Moja je pusta mladost protekla u borbi sa samim sobom i sa svijetom; bojeći se poruge, pokopao sam svoje najbolje osjećaje na dnu srca; ondje su izumrli.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, Герой нашего времени: Стихотворения. Поэмы. Роман

“-Da, čovek može da se navikne i na fijuk metaka, to jest da skriva nehotične otkucaje srca.
-Čuo sam, naprotiv, da je za poneke stare ratnike ta muzika čak prijatna.
-Razume se, ako hoćete, to je prijatno; ali ipak samo zato što srce kuca jače.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh