We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
IVAN TURGENEVThe word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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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 look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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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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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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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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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