No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
IVAN TURGENEVYouth 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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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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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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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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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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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