Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
IVAN TURGENEVI look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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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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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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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.
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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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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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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