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.
IVAN TURGENEVA person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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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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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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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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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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