Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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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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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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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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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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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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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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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Significance is sweet.
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