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.
IVAN TURGENEVEach individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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