Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
IVAN TURGENEVGo and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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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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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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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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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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Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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