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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. I don't adopt any one's ideas I have my own.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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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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