Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
IVAN TURGENEVDon’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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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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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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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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 share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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