Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
IVAN TURGENEVEven nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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