Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
IVAN TURGENEVI’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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome 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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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