Time, 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.
IVAN TURGENEVDeath’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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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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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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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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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Significance is sweet.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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’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 never started from ideas but always from character.
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