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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We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
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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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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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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
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Everyone needs help from everyone else.
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The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?
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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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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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I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it.
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Significance is sweet.
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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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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.