The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
IVAN TURGENEVEveryone needs help from everyone else.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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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 a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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