Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
IVAN TURGENEVLove, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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’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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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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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 share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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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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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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