Ivan Turgenev Quotes

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.

Ivan Turgenev

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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.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Nature
  • Acknowledge
  • Human Logic