Turgenev Quotes
8 quotes by 7 authors
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of…
— Ben Okri
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play…
— Jennifer Garner
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Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth…
— Charles Bukowski
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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake…
— Oscar Wilde
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We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I…
— Kenneth Oppel
Who Wrote These Turgenev Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 8 Turgenev Quotes as follows: