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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
Ivan Turgenev
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Ivan Turgenev
Age: 65 †
Born: 1818
Born: January 1
Died: 1883
Died: January 1
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
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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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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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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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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. I don't adopt any one's ideas I have my own.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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