In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
IVAN TURGENEVI share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Significance is sweet.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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 am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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