I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
IVAN TURGENEVI never started from ideas but always from character.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Significance is sweet.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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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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