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O women, women! Who really does understand them? Their smiles contradict their glances, their words promise and beguile, but their tone of voice repulses.

— Mikhail Lermontov

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Women love only the men they don’t know.

Alone, as before, in the universe
Without hope and without love!..

The Demon (1830)

What would a woman not do to hurt a rival!

I want to reconcile myself with heaven,
I want to love, I want to pray,
I want to believe in good.

The Demon (1830)

In people's eyes I read
Pages of malice and sin.

The Prophet (1841)

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