A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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