Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
IVAN TURGENEVGo and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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