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.
IVAN TURGENEVI never started from ideas but always from character.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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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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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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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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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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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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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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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 agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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