Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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’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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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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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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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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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 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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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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