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.
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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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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 and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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 don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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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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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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