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Ivan Turgenev Quotes

«... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | Keywords: for the moment
«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.»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | About: Time | Keywords: crawls, flies, happiest, snail, snails, swiftly
«Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | Keywords: shoot
«However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | About: Nature | Keywords: comprehensible, knock
«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»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | About: Logic, Nature | Keywords: acknowledge, crushed, wheel
«Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this?Great God, grant that twice two be not four.»
«I share no man's opinions; I have my own»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | Keywords: My own, opinions, share
«To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself»
«The temerity to believe in nothing»
Author: Ivan Turgenev | Keywords: temerity
«Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.»
Author: Ivan Turgenev