Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
IVAN TURGENEVTake 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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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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.
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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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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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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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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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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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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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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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Significance is sweet.
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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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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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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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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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