I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
IVAN TURGENEVI’ve become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it’s difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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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?
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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