There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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 am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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.
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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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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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