He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
IVAN TURGENEVEven nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Significance is sweet.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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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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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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