All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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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Youth 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.
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Behind me there are already so many memories Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for I just don’t want to go along it.
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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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The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.
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What’s important is that twice two is four and all the rest’s nonsense.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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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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