Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
IVAN TURGENEVI am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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.
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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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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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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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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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Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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