Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. “I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.
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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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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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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 agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Illness isn’t the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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We sit in the mud and reach for the stars.
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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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That’s what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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