I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Love
However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Nature
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Opinions, Opinion
The heart of another is a dark forest.
—Ivan Turgenev
Just try and set death aside. It sets you aside, and that’s the end of it!
—Ivan Turgenev
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.
—Ivan Turgenev
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Conformity
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Prayer
I share no one’s ideas. I have my own.
—Ivan Turgenev
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Procrastination
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.
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Time
The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are not worth understanding.
—Ivan Turgenev
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Friendship
Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone.
—Ivan Turgenev
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
—Ivan Turgenev
Topics: Nature, Logic
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