We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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