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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.
Ivan Turgenev
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Ivan Turgenev
Age: 65 †
Born: 1818
Born: January 1
Died: 1883
Died: January 1
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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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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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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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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
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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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Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.
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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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The temerity to believe in nothing.
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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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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Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
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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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