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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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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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I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.
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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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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
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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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