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.
IVAN TURGENEVIt’s all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
More Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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I was afraid of looking into my heart…afraid of thinking seriously about anything…I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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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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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Every man’s happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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