However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
IVAN TURGENEVSo long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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