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Ivan Turgenev Quotes

Ivan Turgenev quotes

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

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Ivan Turgenev quote: "a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it"
a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it Ivan Turgenev
His little eyes, which looked as if they'd literally been hammered into place, gazed out fixedly and uncomfortably, and he also had a way of laughing uncomfortably with an abrupt, wooden laugh. Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev quote: "The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for..."
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. Ivan Turgenev
Yes," he said, without looking at anyone; "it's a misfortune to live five years in the country like this, far from the mighty intellects! You turn into a fool directly. You may try not to forget what you've been taught, but -in a snap!- they'll prove all that's rubbish, and tell you that sensible men have nothing more to do with such foolishness, and that you, if you please, are an antiquated old fogey. What's to be done? Young people, of course, are cleverer than we are! Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev quote: "It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art."
It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art. Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev quote: "To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound..."
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev quote: "But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and..."
But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery. Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev quote: "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely..."
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev quote: "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely..."
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." - Ivan Turgenev Ivan Turgenev
A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures? Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev quote: "Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses..."
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. Ivan Turgenev
I burnt as in a fire in her presence ... but what did I care to know what the fire was in which I burned and melted--it was enough that it was sweet to burn and melt. Ivan Turgenev
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. Ivan Turgenev
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. Ivan Turgenev
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. Ivan Turgenev

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