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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve ...
— Ivan Turgenev
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
— Ivan Turgenev
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.
— Ivan Turgenev
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
— Ivan Turgenev
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
— Ivan Turgenev
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
— Ivan Turgenev
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
— Ivan Turgenev
I had no first love,' he said at last; 'I began with the second.
— Ivan Turgenev
First we've got to clear the ground.
— Ivan Turgenev
It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
— Ivan Turgenev
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
— Ivan Turgenev
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
— Ivan Turgenev
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
— Ivan Turgenev
Know how to will, and you will be free, and will lead.
— Ivan Turgenev
We sit in the mud ... and reach for the stars.
— Ivan Turgenev
I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;
— Ivan Turgenev
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
— Ivan Turgenev
The temerity to believe in nothing.
— Ivan Turgenev
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal ...
— Ivan Turgenev
Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in that.
— Ivan Turgenev
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
— Ivan Turgenev
We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.
— Ivan Turgenev
We act by virtue of what we recognize as beneficial. At the present time, negation is the most beneficial of all - and we deny.
— Ivan Turgenev
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
— Ivan Turgenev
He was the soul of politeness to everyone to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect. — Ivan Turgenev
The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared.
— Ivan Turgenev
Even nightingales can't be fed on fairy tales.
— Ivan Turgenev
One doesn't know what one doesn't know.
— Ivan Turgenev
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
— Ivan Turgenev
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
— Ivan Turgenev
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
— Ivan Turgenev
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
— Ivan Turgenev
Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!
— Ivan Turgenev
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocraticand irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another. — 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
You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.
— Ivan Turgenev
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
— Ivan Turgenev
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
— Ivan Turgenev
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
— Ivan Turgenev
She found it sinful and expensive to have sugar in her tea, although she herself never spent a penny on anything.
— Ivan Turgenev
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
— Ivan Turgenev
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— Ivan Turgenev
What's this?' she asked. 'Is it a sphinx?'Yes,' he answered, 'and the sphinx is you. — Ivan Turgenev
But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.
— Ivan Turgenev
Death's an old story, but new for each person.
— Ivan Turgenev
Belonging to oneselfthe whole essence of life lies in that. — Ivan Turgenev
The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?
— Ivan Turgenev
Death doesn't come running, but you can't run away from it, neither; nor must you be helping it along.
— Ivan Turgenev
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
— Ivan Turgenev
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
— Ivan Turgenev
To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'
— Ivan Turgenev
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
— Ivan Turgenev
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
— Ivan Turgenev
How sad that youth, with all its power,Was given us in vain, to burn;
That we betrayed it every hour,
And were deceived by it in turn; — Ivan Turgenev
the sound of one's own voice has a powerful effect on any man,
— Ivan Turgenev
It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.
— Ivan Turgenev
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.
— Ivan Turgenev
After all, when you think of it, nothing is stronger in the world...and weaker--than a word!
— Ivan Turgenev
Death is something ancient, but it comes fresh to each of us.
— Ivan Turgenev
My dear Natalya Petrovna, there's funny and funny.
— Ivan Turgenev
Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.
— Ivan Turgenev
Significance is sweet ...
— Ivan Turgenev
Words indeed have been my ruin; they have consumed me, and to the end I cannot be free of them.
— Ivan Turgenev
I never started from ideas but always from character.
— Ivan Turgenev
Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
— Ivan Turgenev
Caprice and irresponsibility ... .Those two words sum you up; your whole nature's contained in those
two words. — Ivan Turgenev
I share no man's opinions; I have my own.
— Ivan Turgenev
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.
— Ivan Turgenev
And was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life /
To be close to your heart? — Ivan Turgenev
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
— Ivan Turgenev
Nowhere does time pass as swiftly as in Russia, though they say that in prison it passes even more quickly.
— Ivan Turgenev
