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I share no man's opinions I have my own.

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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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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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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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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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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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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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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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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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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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Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
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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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