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“We sit in the mud ... and reach for the stars.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“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 Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“We sit in the mud ... and reach for the stars.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“To desire and expect nothing for oneself—and to have profound sympathy for others—is genuine holiness.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)