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.
IVAN TURGENEVI agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Significance is sweet.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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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.
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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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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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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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