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.
IVAN TURGENEVThe word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Significance is sweet.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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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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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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