In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
IVAN TURGENEVA person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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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’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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