A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
IVAN TURGENEVEvery man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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