Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
IVAN TURGENEVWe sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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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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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I share no man’s opinions; 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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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