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

Ivan Turgenev

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

Ivan Turgenev

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

Ivan Turgenev

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Ivan Turgenev

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Ivan Turgenev

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

Ivan Turgenev

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

Ivan Turgenev

And was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life / To be close to your heart?

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

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

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.

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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

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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