Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
IVAN TURGENEVA person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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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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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Nature 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.
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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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