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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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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Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.
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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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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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