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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of indifferent nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.
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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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I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.
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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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I share no man's opinions I have my own.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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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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