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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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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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I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.
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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
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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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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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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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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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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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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I share no man's opinions I have my own.
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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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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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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 agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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