I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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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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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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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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Significance is sweet.
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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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