The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
IVAN TURGENEVWhat a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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