Ivan Goncharov Quotes
- 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…
- I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures…
- 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.
- 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…
- It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
- A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of…