I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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 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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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced it.
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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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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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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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