I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
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… - Ivan Turgenev
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…
- Ivan Turgenev
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. - Ivan Turgenev
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.
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. - Ivan Turgenev
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it. - Ivan Turgenev
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
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… - Ivan Turgenev
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…
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. - Ivan Turgenev
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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 pe… - Ivan Turgenev
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 pe…
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. - Ivan Turgenev
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. - Ivan Turgenev
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
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