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Ivan Turgenev Quotes

Ivan Turgenev quotes about love

Russian Novelist, Writer, Poet October 28, 1818 – September 3, 1883

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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
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
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... Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev quote: "My son,' he wrote to me, 'fear the love of woman; fear that..."
My son,' he wrote to me, 'fear the love of woman; fear that bliss, that poison.... Ivan Turgenev
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. Ivan Turgenev

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