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I share no man's opinions 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'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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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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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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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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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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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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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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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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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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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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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