Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
IVAN TURGENEVIt was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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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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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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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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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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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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