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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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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.
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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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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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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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 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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Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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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 walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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