Everyone needs help from everyone else.
IVAN TURGENEVNothing 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!
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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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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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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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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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 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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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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Significance is sweet.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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