Who said "I have loved the impossible and despised the possible."?

This quote is attributed to Mikhail Lermontov.

I have loved the impossible and despised the possible. - Mikhail Lermontov

"I have loved the impossible and despised the possible."

Mikhail Lermontov Love

Poet Novelist Russian 1814–1841

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