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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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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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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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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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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Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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I share no man's opinions I have my own.
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There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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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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No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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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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