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Quotation from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
“ambition is nothing more nor less than a thirst for power, and my chief pleasure is to make everything that surrounds me subject to my will.”
A Hero of Our Time, Princess Mary, trans. J. H. Wisdom and Marr Murray (1912)
Pechorin analyses his own motives in his journal.
Citation: "ambition is nothing more nor less than a thirst for power, and my chief pleasure is to make everything that surrounds me subject to my will." — Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time, Princess Mary, trans. J. H. Wisdom and Marr Murray (1912). (id lermontov-a-hero-of-our-time-q1)
