A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
IVAN TURGENEVGo and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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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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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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