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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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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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Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
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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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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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Circumstances define us they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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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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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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