Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
IVAN TURGENEVWe sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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