No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
IVAN TURGENEVYou may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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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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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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