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.
IVAN TURGENEVAh, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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