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.
IVAN TURGENEVLove isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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 person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Significance is sweet.
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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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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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