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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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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of 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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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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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
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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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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. I don't adopt any one's ideas I have my own.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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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 believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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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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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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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 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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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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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