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.
IVAN TURGENEVTime, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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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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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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