Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
IVAN TURGENEVI am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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