Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
IVAN TURGENEVThe word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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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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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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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