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I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.
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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So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.
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I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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 share no man's opinions I have my own.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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Circumstances define us they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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