Ivan Turgenev Quotes

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• Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
• I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve....
• I never started from ideas but always from character.
• 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.
• Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself...
• That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
• I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
• Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
• I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.
• 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…
• The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
• Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
• I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
• In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and…
• Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
• I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
• The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;…
• Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who…
• I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is…
• Everyone needs help from everyone else.

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