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Ivan Turgenev quotes

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

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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

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Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

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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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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.

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