Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
IVAN TURGENEVThe temerity to believe in nothing.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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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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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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