Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
IVAN TURGENEVNothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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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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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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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Take 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.
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Significance is sweet.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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