Quotes of Ivan Turgenev - somelinesforyou

“ 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

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

- Ivan Turgenev

“ He has no faith in principles, only in frogs. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo Tolstoy's latest work, a work which at the same time, by virtue of its creative, poetic force, ranks almost first among all that has appeared in Russian literature since 1840. No! without culture, without freedom in the widest sense, freedom within oneself, freedom from preconceived ideas, freedom with regard to one's own nation and history, without this, the real artist is unthinkable; without this free air he cannot breathe. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ I share no man's opinions; I have my own. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ I share no man's opinions; I have my own. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice... you feel... in yourself. ”

- 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

“ The temerity to believe in nothing. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to thisGreat God, grant that twice two be not four. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ The temerity to believe in nothing. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ The boldness to believe in nothing (Fathers and Sons). ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ The temerity to believe in nothing. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice... you feel... in yourself. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

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

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to thisGreat God, grant that twice two be not four. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

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

- Ivan Turgenev

“ To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice... you feel... in yourself. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

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

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

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

- Ivan Turgenev

“ If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to thisGreat God, grant that twice two be not four. ”

- Ivan Turgenev
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