It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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 am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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.
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Significance is sweet.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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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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