Quote by Ivan Turgenev

““In ieder geval zal het bij een juiste inrichting van der maatschappij geen enkel verschil maken of iemand dom of verstandig, slecht of goed is.””

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What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

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“I think; here I lie under a haystack… The tiny space I occupy is so infinitely small in comparison with the rest of space,…

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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but…

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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…

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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?

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“But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out…

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“There was nothing ugly in the small, unprepossessing figure of this emancipated woman, but the expression on her face made a bad impression on…

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“In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest…

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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…

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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…

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“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.”

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