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**Character of Pechorin**

 * 1) ======Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.======
 * 2) ======...I am not capable of close friendship: of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither of them will admit it. I cannot be a slave, and to command in such circumstances is a tiresome business, because one must deceive at the same time.======
 * 3) ======To cause another person suffering or joy, having no right to so-- isn't that the sweetest food of our pride? What is happiness but gratified pride?======
 * 4) ======“For a long time now I've lived by intellect, not feeling.======
 * 5) ======“I've got an unfortunate character.”======
 * 6) ======"In this fruitless struggle I wasted all the ardour of spirit and firmness of will that are needed in real life; when I then came into this life, I had lived through already in my mind and found it boring and disgusting, like reading a poor pastiche of a long familiar book."======

**Cynicism**

 * 1) ======“My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason”.======
 * 2) ======To cause another person suffering or joy, having no right to so-- isn't that the sweetest food of our pride? What is happiness but gratified pride?======
 * 3) ======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.======
 * 4) ======"In this fruitless struggle I wasted all the ardour of spirit and firmness of will that are needed in real life; when I then came into this life, I had lived through already in my mind and found it boring and disgusting, like reading a poor pastiche of a long familiar book."======

**Fate**

 * 1) ======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.======
 * 2) ======I'll hazard my life, even my honor, twenty times, but I will not sell my freedom. Why do I value it so much? What am I preparing myself for? What do I expect from the future? in fact, nothing at all======
 * 3) ======“If predestination really exists, why have we been given free-will and reason? Why do we have to give an account of our deeds?======
 * 4) ======“If only people thought more about it, they would see that life is not woth worrying about so much.======

**Honesty**

 * 1) ======...I am not capable of close friendship: of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither of them will admit it. I cannot be a slave, and to command in such circumstances is a tiresome business, because one must deceive at the same time.======
 * 2) ======“I've got an unfortunate character.”======

**Setting**

 * 1) ======“The air is pure, as the kiss of a child, the sun in bright, the sky blue – what more does one want? What need have we here of passions, desires, regrets? (Pyatigorsk)======

**Role of Women**

 * 1) ======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. One minute they comprehend and divine our most secret thoughts, and the next, they do not understand the clearest hints======
 * 2) ======“I must confess I don’t really like strong-willed women. That’s not their role in life!”======
 * 3) ======"It is hard to convince women of anything--they must be brought to a point where they will convince themselves."======

**Intelligence**

 * 1) ======“For a long time now I've lived by intellect, not feeling.======


 * Pechorin's Relationships**
 * 1) ...I am not capable of close friendship: of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither of them will admit it. I cannot be a slave, and to command in such circumstances is a tiresome business, because one must deceive at the same time.
 * 2) I'm still in love with her...I'd give my life for her. But she bores me.

**Emotions and Logic**

 * 1) ======“My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason”.======
 * 2) ======Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.======
 * 3) ======Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage======

**Inability to enjoy life**

 * 1) ======“My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason”.======
 * 2) ======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.======
 * 3) ======I'll hazard my life, even my honor, twenty times, but I will not sell my freedom. Why do I value it so much? What am I preparing myself for? What do I expect from the future? in fact, nothing at all======