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.
IVAN TURGENEVI only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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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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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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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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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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