Tag: Ivan Turgenev

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Sympathy

Ivan Turgenev | sympathy

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

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strength

Ivan Turgenev | strength

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

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freedom

Ivan Turgenev | freedom

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn’t know art, just as it doesn’t know freedom, just as it doesn’t know goodness.

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Death

Ivan Turgenev | death

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.

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Death

Ivan Turgenev | death

Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

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alone

Quote from Ivan Turgenev | alone

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Quote from Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack… The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist… And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something… What chaos! What a farce!

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