Ivan Turgenev Quotes

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?

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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

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It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

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The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

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That's what children are for - that their parents may not be bored.

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