What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
IVAN TURGENEVIt was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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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 look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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