I don’t see why it’s impossible to express everything that’s on one’s mind.
IVAN TURGENEVIt’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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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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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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Significance is sweet.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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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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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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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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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he’s something innately superior, something eternal–and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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It’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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