I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
IVAN TURGENEVEveryone needs help from everyone else.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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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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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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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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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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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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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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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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 sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Significance is sweet.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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