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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

Ivan Turgenev

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
IVAN TURGENEV

Desire Expectation Genuine Holy Sympathy
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
IVAN TURGENEV

Bird Fairy Tale Feed
Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
IVAN TURGENEV

Built Happiness Man
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
IVAN TURGENEV

Heat heavy Pass Return Sleep Time Wait
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Atheist Fact Simplicity
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Fools Happiness Monster Ourselves Young
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Company Help Need Support
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
IVAN TURGENEV

Heaven Myself
Nothing 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!
IVAN TURGENEV

Curse Fate Happiness Hurt Precious Right Worst Yourself
It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Art Romanticism Stupidity
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
IVAN TURGENEV

Children Indecision People Word
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Body Myself Table
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Actor Flirt Heart Nature
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
IVAN TURGENEV

Feeling Life Moments Pass Point
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.
IVAN TURGENEV

Bad Goodness Heart Man Myself Terrible
A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
IVAN TURGENEV

Angry Come Himself Person

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

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