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Go forward while you can, but...

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.

Ivan Turgenev 108 quotes

Nature is not a temple, but a...

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

Ivan Turgenev 108 quotes

Time, as is well known, somet...

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

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The people who bind themselve...

The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

Ivan Turgenev 108 quotes

I am a flirt: I have no heart...

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

Ivan Turgenev 108 quotes

No matter how often you knock...

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

Ivan Turgenev 108 quotes

Life deceives everyone except...

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

Ivan Turgenev 108 quotes

The fact is that previously t...

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

Ivan Turgenev 108 quotes

Art, if one employs this term...

Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.

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That is what poetry can do. I...

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

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The past was a dream wasn't i...

The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?

Ivan Turgenev 108 quotes

Nothing is worse and more hur...

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 108 quotes

I only know that I feel tired...

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

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I was afraid of looking into ...

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.

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There's something tragic in t...

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

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Whereas I think: I’m lying he...

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!

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I believe love produces a cer...

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

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Death's an old joke, but each...

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

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People without firmness of ch...

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

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A poet must be a psychologist...

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 108 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....