I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
IVAN TURGENEVIllness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Significance is sweet.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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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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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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