265 Quotes by Ivan Turgenev


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    Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

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

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

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    I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

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    Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

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