In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
IVAN TURGENEVI share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in 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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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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