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.
IVAN TURGENEVNo matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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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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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.
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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.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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