Everyone needs help from everyone else.
IVAN TURGENEVI’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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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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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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