Significance is sweet.
IVAN TURGENEVWe’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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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 word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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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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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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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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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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