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.
IVAN TURGENEVEvery man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Significance is sweet.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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