Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
IVAN TURGENEV
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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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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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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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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.
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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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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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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