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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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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.
Ivan Turgenev
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
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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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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
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Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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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.
Ivan Turgenev
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
Ivan Turgenev
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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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.
Ivan Turgenev
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
Ivan Turgenev
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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