Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
IVAN TURGENEVLove isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Significance is sweet.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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.
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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!
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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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.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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