Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
IVAN TURGENEVNature 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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