So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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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Significance is sweet.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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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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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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