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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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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.
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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. I don't adopt any one's ideas I have my own.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
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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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Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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Circumstances define us they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
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