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 TURGENEVWe Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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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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Don’t force me into saying what I don’t want to say, and what I won’t say.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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