Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
IVAN TURGENEVI share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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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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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Significance is sweet.
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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!
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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I’m through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me…. If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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