What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
IVAN TURGENEVThe fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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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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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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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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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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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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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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