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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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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
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No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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Circumstances define us they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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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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Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.
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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
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I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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