Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
IVAN TURGENEVI look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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