What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
IVAN TURGENEV
Time, 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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Significance is sweet.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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