There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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 look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
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I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
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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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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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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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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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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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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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