Significance is sweet.
IVAN TURGENEVI believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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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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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 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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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