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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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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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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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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Circumstances define us they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel
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Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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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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I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.
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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.
Ivan Turgenev
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.
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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
Ivan Turgenev
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
Ivan Turgenev
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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