There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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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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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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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 only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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