Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
IVAN TURGENEVI do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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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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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 agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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I’m incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn’t want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I’d never experienced 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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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