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 TURGENEVWhatever 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.
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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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 believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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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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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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