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=**Quotes Folder: //A Hero of Our Time//**=

//“//There are two men within me - one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reflects and judges him. In an hour's time the first may be leaving you and the world for ever, and the second? ... the second? ...”
 * //Character of Pechorin//**

“I've got an unfortunate character.”

“Life has left me with a few ideas, yet no feelings.”
 * //Emotional responses//**

“I’m still in love with her… I’d give my life for her. But she bores me.”

“I make fun of everything, feelings especially, and this is beginning to alarm her.”

“My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason”

“For a long time now I've lived by intellect, not feeling.”

“Women! Women! Who will understand them? Their smiles contradict their glances, their words promise and lure, while the sound of their voices drives us away.”
 * Role of Women / Misogamy**

“I must confess I don’t really like strong-willed women. That’s not their role in life!”

“She was a strange creature”

//**Fate**// //“//What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life.”

“If predestination really exists, why have we been given free-will and reason? Why do we have to give an account of our deeds?”

//While Bela was dying:// //“// All this time, though, I never once saw a tear in his eye. Perhaps he couldn’t cry, perhaps he controlled himself, I don’t know.”
 * //Easily bored//**

//**Setting**// //“They put chains under the wheels to act as a brake to stop them running away, took the horses by the bridle and began the descent.”//

//**Joy vs. Happiness**// “Perhaps that’s why you loved me, I thought. Moments of happiness one forgets, but sorrow never.”

//“//When I think of imminent and possible death, I think only of myself, some do not even do that.”
 * //Heroic Failure//**

//**Love**// “I’m still in love with her… I’d give my life for her. But she bores me.”

“I was born with a passion for contradiction. My whole life has been nothing but a series of dismal, unsuccessful attempts to go against heart or reason.”