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?
IVAN TURGENEVSo 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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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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