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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.

Ivan Turgenev

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
IVAN TURGENEV

Beginning Moments Patience Wait
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
IVAN TURGENEV

Death Yourself
What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
IVAN TURGENEV

Degrade Essence Life Terrible
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
IVAN TURGENEV

Built Happiness Man
I never started from ideas but always from character.
IVAN TURGENEV

Character Ideas Myself Start
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.
IVAN TURGENEV

Character Fate Necessary People Responsibility Willing
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
IVAN TURGENEV

Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
IVAN TURGENEV

Average Herself Mediocre Vulgar
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
IVAN TURGENEV

God Greatness Mathematics
We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
IVAN TURGENEV

Reach Stars
That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
IVAN TURGENEV

Bored Children Parents
Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
IVAN TURGENEV

Goal Memories Myself Point Remember Road
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
IVAN TURGENEV

Feeling Live Myself Time
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
IVAN TURGENEV

Earth Fire Happiness Oneself Talk
He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
IVAN TURGENEV

Himself Polite Respect Soul
Significance is sweet.
IVAN TURGENEV

One Liner Sweet

Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.

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