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!
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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal.
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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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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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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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