In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
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Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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No matter how often you knock at nature’s door, she won’t answer in words you can understand–for Nature is dumb. She’ll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn’t expect a song.
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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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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!
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People 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.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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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 share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
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