What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
IVAN TURGENEVNo matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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