The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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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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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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I 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.
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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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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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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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