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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.
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 don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.
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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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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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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.
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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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