One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
IVAN TURGENEVTime, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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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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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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