Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
IVAN TURGENEVI agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Significance is sweet.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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