The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
IVAN TURGENEVA person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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Love isn’t actually a feeling at all–it’s an illness, a certain condition of body and soul…. Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will–just like cholera or a fever.
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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 believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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 don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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I’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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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 past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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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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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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