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Ivan Turgenev

As we all know, time sometimes flies like a bird, and sometimes crawls like a worm, but people may be unusually happy when they do not even notice whether time has passed quickly or slowly

Ivan Turgenev

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So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me — a long, long road without a goal...

Ivan Turgenev

genius ivan turgenev

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved...

Ivan Turgenev

genius ivan turgenev

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!

Ivan Turgenev

genius ivan turgenev

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

Ivan Turgenev

genius ivan turgenev

We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.

Ivan Turgenev

genius ivan turgenev

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

Ivan Turgenev