You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
IVAN TURGENEVSo many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Significance is sweet.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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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.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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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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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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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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