A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
IVAN TURGENEVIn my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Take 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.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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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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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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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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