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• Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Ignorance, Fate, Hands

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fairy Tale, Feds, Tales

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.561, Delphi Classics

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• He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Soul, Hints, Aversion

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Richard Freeborn (1998). “Fathers and Sons”, p.72, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Atheist, Two, Four

  Poems in Prose "Prayer" (1881)

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• I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs -- a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy -- you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Dog, Smart, Fall

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• Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Prayer, Men, Miracle

  Poems in Prose "Prayer" (1881)

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• Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?

  Ivan Turgenev

  Joy, Soul, Touching

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• Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Ideas, My Own

  Fathers and Sons ch. 13 (1862) (translation by Constance Garnett)

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• In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

  Ivan Turgenev

  Country, Powerful, Fate

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Heart, Flirting, Actors

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1983). “First love”, Viking Adult

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• Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Lying, Grief, Thinking

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• It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Art, Nonsense, Romanticism

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1950). “The Borzoi Turgenev”

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• However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.639, Delphi Classics

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• Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Health, Law

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.324, Northwestern University Press

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• Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sinking Feeling, Feelings, Would Be

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• Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Rights, Long

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

  Ivan Turgenev

  Body, Tables, Should

  Ivan Turgenev (2016). “Fathers and Sons”, p.84, Ivan Turgenev

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• Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

  Ivan Turgenev

  Feelings, Pity, Good Feeling

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• What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?

  Ivan Turgenev

  First Love, Rising Up, Phantoms

  Ivan Turgenev (2012). “First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Monsters, Fool, Conquer

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• Anyone who has crossed from the district of Bolkhov into that of Zhizdra will probably have been struck by the sharp difference between the natives of the provinces of Orel and Kaluga.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Book, Differences, Provinces

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• Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sweet, Sleep, Waiting

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1958). “Fathers and Children”, p.536, Library of Alexandria

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• To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

  Ivan Turgenev

  Wife, Harder, Whole

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• A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Children, Son, Branches

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

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