Ivan Turgenev Quotes

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• If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Motivational, Business, Inspiration

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1951). “The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil”

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• Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

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  Anger, Envy, Failing

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.183, Northwestern University Press

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• Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

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  Hurtful, Too Late, Late

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• I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

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  Heart, Men, Good Man

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• The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

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  Running, Knowing, People

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• We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

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  Stars, Mud

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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 permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.

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  Love Is, Soul, Feelings

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.182, Northwestern University Press

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• Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

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  Force, Circumstances

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.163, Northwestern University Press

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

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  Children, People, Tomorrow

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• The temerity to believe in nothing.

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  Believe, Atheism, Positive Atheism

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1958). “Fathers and Children”, p.367, Library of Alexandria

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• Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

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  Bird, Sometimes, Time Passing

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

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• Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

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  Love, Together, Stronger

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

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  Love, Believe, Personality

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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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  Sympathy, Profound, Desire

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

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• Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

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  Life, Deception, Demand

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• Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

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  Life, Freedom, Lying

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

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• a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

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  Overcoming, Illness, Persons

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• I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

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  Opinion, Agree, My Own

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

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  Encounters, Individual, Old Jokes

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.741, Northwestern University Press

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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 even more like the truth.

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  Doe, Speak, Can Do

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

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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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• Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

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  Hands, Things In Life, Whole

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

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• There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

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  Feelings, Moments

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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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• 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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