So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
IVAN TURGENEVNature 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
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