Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.
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Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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 and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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.