What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
IVAN TURGENEVA 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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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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Significance is sweet.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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