Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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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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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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