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“However much you knock at natures door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“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.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“Ive become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; its difficult to tame the beast in oneself.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“The masses always end up wholeheartedly believing and following those individuals whom they themselves mock, individuals whom they curse and persecute, but individuals who, not fearing their curses or their persecution, continue steadily forward, having fastened a spiritual gaze on the only goal such individuals can see.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“Nature creates while destroying, and doesnt care whether it creates or destroysas long as life isnt extinguished, as long as death doesnt lose its rights.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)