I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
IVAN TURGENEVIn my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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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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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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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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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Significance is sweet.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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