“I began life with a quenching of the light of day, and, from the first moment that I realized myself, realized also… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“Yes, and I think I will have enough strength to live and love my whole life through. One without the other is… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“Life is duty and obligation, therefore love, too, is a duty. It's as if God sent it to me,' she said, looking… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life… My life began by flickering out. — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
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… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic,… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“When all the forces in your organism come into play, then life will begin to play around you as well. You'll see… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“To think that just when one's happiness is full to overflowing, and one is thoroughly in love with life, there should come… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“All at once he found his mind drawing a parallel between that destiny and his own existence; all at once questions of… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“Because he possesses something that is worth more than any amount of intelligence - an honest and faithful heart! It is the… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“She attended the French performance, but the play's content now had a connection to her life. She read a book and the… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“I desire nothing, seek nothing but peace, the slumber of the soul. I have tasted all the hollowness and wretchedness of life… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“Ah! This is retribution for Promethean fire! Besides being patient, you must also love this sadness and respect your doubts and questions.… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“She never indulged in reveries or tried to be clever in her conversation; she seemed to have drawn a line in her mind beyond… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness. pp. 445-446” — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“What? Do you suppose the intellect can work separately from the heart?” — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
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… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“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” — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“All at once he found his mind drawing a parallel between that destiny and his own existence; all at once questions of life arose… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“Plunged up to the ears in work, good friend!" thought Oblomov as he watched him depart. "Yes, and blind and deaf and dumb to… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“When all the forces in your organism come into play, then life will begin to play around you as well. You'll see what your… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
