What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
IVAN TURGENEVA person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Significance is sweet.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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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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