Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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 share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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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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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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