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No devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life…My life began by flickering out.

Ivan Goncharov

"And he was as intelligent as other people, his soul was pure and clear as crystal; he was noble and affectionate — and yet he did nothing!" "But why? What was the reason?" "The reason... what reason was there? Oblo-movism!"

Ivan Goncharov

"And he was as intelligent as other people, his soul was pure and clear as crystal; he was noble and affectionate—and yet he did nothing!" "But why? What was the reason?" "The reason... what reason was there? Oblomovism!"

Ivan Goncharov

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Ivan Goncharov

When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.

Ivan Goncharov

You lost your ability for doing things in childhood…It all began with your inability to put on your socks and ended by your inability to live.

Ivan Goncharov

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

Ivan Goncharov

Ivan Goncharov

Born: June 18, 1812

Died: September 27, 1891 (aged 79)

Bio: Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels A Common Story, Oblomov, and The Precipice. He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.

Known for:

Oblomov (1859)
A Common Story (1847)
The Precipice (1869)
Same Old Story
Ivan Savich Podzhabrin

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