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.
IVAN TURGENEVGreat God, grant that twice two be not four.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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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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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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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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Significance is sweet.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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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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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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