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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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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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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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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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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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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 agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
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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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Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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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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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