A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
IVAN TURGENEVTake 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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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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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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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.
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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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