I never started from ideas but always from character.
IVAN TURGENEVIt was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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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. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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