Quote by Ivan Goncharov

“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

“But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness. pp. 445-446”

— Ivan Goncharov

“What? Do you suppose the intellect can work separately from the heart?”

— Ivan Goncharov

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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