Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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