Significance is sweet.
IVAN TURGENEVLove, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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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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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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