Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
IVAN TURGENEVThe past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Significance is sweet.
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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 share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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