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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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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