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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/a-son-is-like-a-lopped-off-branch-as-a-falcon-he-comes-when-he-wills/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

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## More by Ivan Turgenev

> [What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/what-a-magnificent-body-how-i-should-like-to-see-it-on-the-dissecting/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [“I think; here I lie under a haystack… The tiny space I occupy is so infinitely small in comparison with the rest of space,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/i-think-here-i-lie-under-a-haystack-the-tiny-space-i-occupy-is-so/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/that-is-what-poetry-can-do-it-speaks-to-us-of-what-does-not-exist/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/so-long-as-one-s-just-dreaming-about-what-to-do-one-can-soar-like-an/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/most-people-can-t-understand-how-others-can-blow-their-noses/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/the-past-was-a-dream-wasn-t-it-and-who-ever-remembers-dreams/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [“But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/but-i-think-that-i-have-already-been-moving-too-long-in-a-sphere/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [“There was nothing ugly in the small, unprepossessing figure of this emancipated woman, but the expression on her face made a bad impression on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/there-was-nothing-ugly-in-the-small-unprepossessing-figure-of-this/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [“In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/in-his-funeral-oration-the-spokesman-of-the-most-artistic-and/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul… Usually it takes possession of someone without his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/love-isn-t-actually-a-feeling-at-all-it-s-an-illness-a-certain/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/there-s-something-tragic-in-the-fate-of-almost-every-person-it-s-just/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/but-i-had-absolutely-lost-all-sense-of-personal-dignity-and-could-not/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [“My son,' he wrote to me, 'fear the love of woman; fear that bliss, that poison…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/my-son-he-wrote-to-me-fear-the-love-of-woman-fear-that-bliss-that/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [Great God, grant that twice two be not four.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/great-god-grant-that-twice-two-be-not-four/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

> [What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-turgenev/what-s-terrible-is-that-there-s-nothing-terrible-that-the-very/)

[Ivan Turgenev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-turgenev/)

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