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.
IVAN TURGENEVWhat a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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 agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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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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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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