Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
IVAN TURGENEVThere are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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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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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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