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“Theres something tragic in the fate of almost every personits 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.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that hes something innately superior, something eternaland lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creaturethis is natures essence, its immutable law, this is what its based on and what it adheres to.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“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 dont notice whether its passing quickly or slowly.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“I wish to say that, in so far as I can, I hope to promote the enactment of further legislation of this character.
Theres nothing else one can say about meIm superfluous, in a word. A supernumerarythats all. Nature evidently didnt count on my appearance, and consequently treated me as an unexpected, uninvited guest.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)