Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
IVAN TURGENEVThat’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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Significance is sweet.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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