Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
IVAN TURGENEVYouth 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.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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Belonging to oneself–the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don’t have far to go, either.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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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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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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