Everyone needs help from everyone else.
IVAN TURGENEV
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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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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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 sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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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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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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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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