Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
IVAN TURGENEVPeople 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Significance is sweet.
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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’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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Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
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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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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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A 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.
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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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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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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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