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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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'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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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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I share no man's opinions I have my own.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. I don't adopt any one's ideas I have my own.
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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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Circumstances define us they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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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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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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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 agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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