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.
IVAN TURGENEVThat’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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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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Significance is sweet.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there’ll come a time when you’ll start asking just for a crust.
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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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What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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