Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that’s all!

Death

Trying

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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.

Anger

Envy

Failing

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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Atheist

Four

Two

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He was the soul of politeness to everyone — to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

Aversion

Hints

Soul

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He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him… He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.

Book

Fall

Reflection

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However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Answers

Doors

Nature

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However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of “indifferent” nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

Eye

Flower

Heart

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

Agree

My Own

Opinion

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I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor’s nature.

Actors

Flirting

Heart

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

Believe

Love

Personality

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