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.
IVAN TURGENEVThe past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Significance is sweet.
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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