The temerity to believe in nothing.
IVAN TURGENEVWe sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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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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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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