That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
IVAN TURGENEVEven nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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