The temerity to believe in nothing.
IVAN TURGENEVGo and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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