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 TURGENEVThat 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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