In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
IVAN TURGENEVEveryone needs help from everyone else.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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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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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Significance is sweet.
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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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.
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