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• All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

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  Feet, May, Human Nature

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• In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

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  First Love, Firsts, Cases

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• That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

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  Children, Bored, Parent

  Ivan Turgenev (2012). “First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

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  Roots, Secret, Poet

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.545, Northwestern University Press

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• What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

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  Two, Important, Four

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1998). “Fathers and Sons”, p.230, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

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  Friendship, Long, People

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.2047, Delphi Classics

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• I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

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  Heart, Thinking, Want

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• Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

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  Happiness, Men, Built

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.451, Delphi Classics

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• So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

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  Memories, Long, Goal

  Ivan Turgenev (2016). “Fathers and Sons”, p.105, Ivan Turgenev

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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 as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

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  Dream, Moving, Tired

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• Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

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  Nature, Care, Wheels

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.765, Delphi Classics

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• Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

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  Death, Trying

  Ivan Turgenev (2015). “Fathers and Sons”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

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  Men, Opinion, Share

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• Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

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  Nature, Men, Atheism

  1862 Fathers and Sons (translated by Rosemary Edmonds), ch.9.

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• I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

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  Feelings, Want, Unfortunate

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• Everyone needs help from everyone else.

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  Inspiration, Needs, Helping

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1983). “Letters”

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• No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

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  Song, Nature, Doors

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• What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

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  Life, Essence, Alienation

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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 of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

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  Life, Mean, Fate

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.485, Northwestern University Press

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• I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

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  Mind, Impossible

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• I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

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  Self, Beast, Treats

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.480, Northwestern University Press

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• I never started from ideas but always from character.

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  Writing, Character, Ideas

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• Significance is sweet.

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  Sweet, Significance

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.573, Delphi Classics

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• People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

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  Character, Responsibility, Fate

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.184, Northwestern University Press

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

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  Dream, Past, Remember

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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