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?
IVAN TURGENEVSo many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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