Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
IVAN TURGENEVGo and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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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?
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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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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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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