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.
IVAN TURGENEVIllness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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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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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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Significance is sweet.
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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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