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.
IVAN TURGENEVThere is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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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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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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 is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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 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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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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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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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