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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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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.
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However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of indifferent nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.
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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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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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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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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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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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