“I would make any sacrifice but this; twenty times I can stake my life, even my honour, but my freedom I shall never sell. Why do I prize it so much? … What am I aiming at? Nothing, absolutely nothing.”
— Referring to marriage

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About Mikhail Lermontov

(1716-1769)

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“I would make any sacrifice but this; twenty times I can stake my life, even my honour, but my freedom I shall never sell. Why do I prize it so much? … What am I aiming at? Nothing, absolutely nothing.”
— Referring to marriage

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.