Ivan Turgenev on description
Ivan Turgenev81 quotes“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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I never started from ideas but always from character.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev 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.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev 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.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev The temerity to believe in nothing.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev 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.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev Significance is sweet.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev 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.
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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