Significance is sweet.
IVAN TURGENEVIn my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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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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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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