What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
IVAN TURGENEVA poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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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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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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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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