I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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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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Take what you can yourself, and don’t let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Significance is sweet.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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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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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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