No 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.
IVAN TURGENEVMost people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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 look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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Significance is sweet.
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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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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