Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
IVAN TURGENEVWhat a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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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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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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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