I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
IVAN TURGENEVPeople 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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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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Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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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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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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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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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I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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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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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Significance is sweet.
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