Goal Quote by Ivan Turgenev

“So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me — a long, long road without a goal...”

Ivan Turgenev

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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, in which I am not, and which has nothing to do with me; and the period of time in which it is my lot to live is so petty beside the eternity in which I have…

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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 the viewer. One felt inclined to ask: "What's the matter? Are you hungry? Bored? Afraid? Why so tense?" Just like Sitnikov, she was always anxious. She spoke and moved in a rather casual, though awkward,manner: she…

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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 writers of our times: ‘The Master, whose exquisite works have charmed our century, stands more than any other man as the incarnation of a whole race,’ because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through…

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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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“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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When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

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