We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
IVAN TURGENEVWhat a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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 believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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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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