Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

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Nature is not a temple, but a workshop in which man must remain a simple worker.

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Art as reproduction, as embodiment of the ideals, which are at the foundation of the people's life and determine their spiritual and moral physiognomy, constitutes one of the primordial qualities of man.

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All art is the elevation of life to the degree of the ideal.

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Education is not only light, as the popular saying goes, but also freedom. Nothing sets a man free like teaching...

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do you want to be happy First learn to suffer.

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Do you want to know this heavy guilt that you cannot understand and that even I cannot explain to you?

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A man without pride is nothing. Pride is Archimedes' lever, with which you can move the earth.

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Man is able to understand everything: how the ether stirs and what happens on the sun, but he is not able to understand how another person does things differently than he does.

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Man is always ashamed and uncomfortable when he talks too much.

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Excessive pride is the sign of a worthless soul.

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Hunting...brings us closer to nature, teaches us to be patient, and sometimes, to be fearless when danger arises.

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O youth! Youth!... Probably, the secret of your charm lies not in the power to do anything, but in the power of belief that you will be able to do anything.

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There is nothing more painful than realizing that you have done something stupid.

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He who has no hope left is not jealous.

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Death is something old, known, but for each of us it is something new.

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Poetry does not consist only in its lines: it is spread everywhere, it is around us. Look at these trees, at this sky, everywhere there is beauty and life, and where there is beauty and life, there is poetry.

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Music is reason embodied in wonderful sounds.

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Love is stronger than death and the fear of death. Only it, only love maintains and makes life go on.

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Both Love and Hunger have one goal: life must not disappear, both one's own and that of others - for it is one and the same life.

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Only the one who loves has the right to argue and correct.

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Nature... awakens in us the need to love...

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Russia can do without any of us, but none of us can do without it. Unhappy is he who really believes this, and twice as unhappy is he who really can do without it.

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Happiness can be neither tomorrow nor yesterday, it can be neither in the past nor in the future, but only in the present - and it does not last a day, but only a moment.

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We all have an anchor from which we will never break free if we don't want to: the sense of duty.

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Only because of it, love, life endures and moves forward.

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Happiness is like health: when you don't notice it then it means it exists.

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Argue with the fool too! You won't get any fame or benefits anyway... But why not have fun sometimes! Argue with a man of your own measure: it doesn't matter who wins, at least you'll have the satisfaction of having fought. Controversy with a man more precious than you; he argues not from the desire to win, but from that of being useful to him. Argue with a man smarter than you: he will win... But even though you lost, you can benefit from something that will be useful to you.

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If you are afraid of ridicule, it means that you do not love the truth.

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The word "tomorrow" is invented for indecisive people and children.

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Skepticism has always been characterized by incapacity and futility.

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He who tends to achieve a great goal must not think only of himself.

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He who has lived without being lenient with the outcasts does not deserve lenience.

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Still don't know if you have talent or not? Give it time to mature; and if it does not manifest itself, does man need poetic talent to live and act?

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Yes, with great justice someone has expressed himself about suicides: as long as they do not carry out their intentions, no one believes them; and if they do, no one feels sorry for them.

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The imposed good is not a good.

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The ancient Greeks did not say for nothing that the last and greatest gift given to man by the gods is a sense of temperance.

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If the best moments of life disappeared with youth, then the other ages of human life would be so unbearable that any individual would cut his throat at 32. Much rubbish floats on the noisy waves of youth; but, nevertheless, there is nothing more wonderful than these waves.

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If we waited for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, would be ready, we would never have to start anything again.

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If the aspiration comes from a pure source, it, even if it has not been entirely successful and has not reached its goal, can still be of great benefit.

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There are three categories of egoists: the egoists who live for themselves and allow others to live; egoists who live for themselves and do not allow others to live; and finally, the egoists who neither live themselves nor allow others to live.

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Miserable is he who lives without an ideal!

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Woman is not only capable of understanding sacrifice: she knows how to sacrifice herself.

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Marriage based on mutual affection and reason is one of the greatest blessings of human life.

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In the days of doubt, in the days of painful reflections about the fate of my homeland - only you are my support and support, oh, great, strong, sincere and free Russian language!... it is impossible not to believe that such of language was not given to a great people!

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Any love is as happy as it is unhappy, it's a true catastrophe when you dedicate yourself to it completely.

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Every prayer boils down to the following: "Oh, almighty God, let two times two not make four."

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Tears are not always a blessing. They are well-wishers and healers when, after a long gathering, they finally pour out of the heart - first with difficulty, then more and more easily and sweetly; the silent agony of pain is eased by them... But there are cold, stingily leaking tears, squeezed drop by drop from the heart by the heavy and immovable sorrow: these are joyless tears and do not give relief.

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The first disappointment is painfully difficult for everyone, but for an honest soul that does not want to deceive itself and is not inclined to exaggeration and frivolity, it is almost unbearable.

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Love! (...) Everything is mysterious about it: how it comes, how it develops, and how it disappears. Sometimes it appears suddenly, knowing no doubt, beaming with joy like the sun, other times it smolders like fire under the ashes, and bursts into the soul when everything has already been destroyed.

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Oh youth! youth! You don't take anything for granted, as if all the treasures in the world were yours, even sorrow amuses you, even sadness suits you, you are confident and perky, you say this: only I live - look! And the days also run and disappear without a trace and without counting, and everything disappears in you, like wax in the sun, like snow... And perhaps the whole secret of your beauty lies not in the possibility of doing everything, but in the possibility of you think about all this action - in the fact that you throw such forces into the wind that you could not use for anything else anyway - in the fact that each of us seriously considers himself a spendthrift, and seriously believes that he has the right to say: Oh, how much I could do if I did not waste waste your time!

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Like all women who have failed to love, she wanted something, not knowing what exactly. Basically, he wanted nothing, although he liked the idea of ​​wanting everything.

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It's an old story that you have to die, and yet it's new to everyone.

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The old leaves only fall from the oak when the young ones start to sprout. This is exactly what happens to the old love in a strong heart: it is already dead, but it still holds on, only another, new love can remove it.

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An optimist sees everything in white, a pessimist sees everything in black. A smart person is color blind.

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My blood boiled and my heart ached - with such a sweet and ridiculous buzz: I was always waiting for something and afraid of something, I wondered about everything and was ready for everything, the play of my imagination was alive, it always fluttered around the same images, like party swallows around the church tower at dawn; I became thoughtful, sad, and even cried; but through the tears and sadness, which sometimes a melodious line of poetry, sometimes a beautiful evening stole into my heart, the joy of young sparkling life burst forth like spring grass.

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I used the minutes until he raised his eyes at me and I began to look, first secretly, then more and more boldly. I saw her face even more beautiful now than last night: all her features were so delicate, clever, and charming. He sat with his back to the window covered with a white curtain; the sunlight shining through the curtain bathed her thick golden hair, her virginal neck, her beautifully curved shoulders, and her gently resting small breasts with gentle light. - I looked at it - and how dear and close I felt! It seemed to me as if I had known him for a long time and had not known anything, nor had I lived until today.

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If you wait for the moment when everything is ready, you will never start anything.

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Young happy years, Dear beautiful days - You ran like spring waters!

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Sometimes time flies like a bird, sometimes it crawls like a snail. You are happy when you don't even notice whether it passes quickly or slowly.

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Oh, its gentle feelings, its soft sounds, its goodness and soothing to the offended soul, the melting joy of the first sensitive love - where are you, where are you going?

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The only thing that matters in life is putting yourself second.

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The drawing clearly shows me what the book explains in a full ten pages.