We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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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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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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