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.
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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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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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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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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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 believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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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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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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