I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
IVAN TURGENEVBehind 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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 do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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