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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. I don't adopt any one's ideas I have my own.

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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
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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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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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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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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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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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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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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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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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