Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
IVAN TURGENEVI am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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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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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
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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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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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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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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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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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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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