Ivan Turgenev Short Quotes

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The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?

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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

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Nature is no temple, but a workshop, and man is the worker therein.

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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

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Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

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Just try and set death aside. It sets you aside, and that's the end of it!

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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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I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

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"A good chemist is twenty times more useful as any poet," broke in Bazarov.

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Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own."

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A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound.

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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

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The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

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A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

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I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

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Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.

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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me — a long, long road without a goal...

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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

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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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The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are not worth understanding.

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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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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

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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.

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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.

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There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic
and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

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