What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
IVAN TURGENEVIn 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!
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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Significance is sweet.
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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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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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