I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
IVAN TURGENEVGo and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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