I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
IVAN TURGENEVIt’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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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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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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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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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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