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Ivan Goncharov quotes: It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Ivan Goncharov quotes: The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life ... My life began by flickering out.

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life ... My life began by flickering out.

Ivan Goncharov quotes: The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands.

The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands.

Ivan Goncharov quotes: Love was life's hardest school of all.p. 259

Love was life's hardest school of all.
p. 259

Ivan Goncharov quotes: Yes, and I think I will have enough strength to live and love my whole life through. One without the other is impossible.p. 265

Yes, and I think I will have enough strength to live and love my whole life through. One without the other is impossible.
p. 265

Ivan Goncharov quotes: Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

Ivan Goncharov quotes: But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.pp. 445-446

But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.
pp. 445-446

Ivan Goncharov quotes: What? Do you suppose the intellect can work separately from the heart?

What? Do you suppose the intellect can work separately from the heart?

Ivan Goncharov quotes: I began life with a quenching of the light of day, and, from the first moment that I realized myself, realized also that I was on the wane.

I began life with a quenching of the light of day, and, from the first moment that I realized myself, realized also that I was on the wane.

Ivan Goncharov quotes: For, as every one knows, dogs cannot with equanimity see a human being running.

For, as every one knows, dogs cannot with equanimity see a human being running.

Ivan Goncharov quotes: Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.p. 479

Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479