Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.
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En la ciudad se rumorea que un amor contrariado ha sido la causa que la impulsó a tomar esa trágica decisión

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Toda mi vida ha sido una espera del inevitable encuentro contigo

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

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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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You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

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was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.

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Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

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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 ins...

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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodne...

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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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I think it was love at first sight for both of us; it just took us a little while to figure it out. That was understandable, considering we were being stuck with needles, shot through with radioactive particles, possibly poisoned by the horrific subs...

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Write about us,” Robinson urged. “Tell our story.” And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands.

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O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring – as if you owned all the treasures of the world; even grief elates you, even sorrow sits well upon your brow. You are self-confident and insolent and you say, 'I alone am alive – behold!' even w...

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

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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.

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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

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

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Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

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Author Bio

  • NameIvan Turgenev
  • DescriptionRussian writer
  • BornNovember 9, 1818
  • DiedSeptember 3, 1883
  • CountryRussian Empire
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Playwright; Novelist
  • WorksA Sportsman's Sketches; Fathers And Sons; A Month In The Country; Mumu