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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian Novelist
Born: Oct 28, 1818
Died: Sep 3, 1883
Death Fate Feelings Life Nature People
Related authors: Boris Pasternak Fyodor Dostoevsky Leo Tolstoy Maxim Gorky Mikhail Sholokhov Romain Gary Yevgeny Zamyatin
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. Ivan Turgenev
Sit Stars Reach Reach For The Stars Mud
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. Ivan Turgenev
Nature You Words Will Comprehensible Never Knock She Answer However Door Much
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 Turgenev
Love Character People Fate Brainy Will Responsibility Own Having Taking Firmness Make Make Up Without Up Them Themselves Necessity
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? Ivan Turgenev
Good Strength Feelings Oppose Petty Those Remorse Egoism Pity Us Who Among
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own. Ivan Turgenev
Own Some My Own Opinion Agree
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. Ivan Turgenev
Speak Enthusiasm Fire Earth About Oneself Only Ecstasy May Anything Speaks
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. Ivan Turgenev
Death Old Joke Anew Individual Encounters Each Each Individual
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. Ivan Turgenev
Art Freedom Nature Goodness Own Later Obedient Hurry Laws No Reason Takes Sooner Sooner Or Later Know Inexorable End Just In The End Reason Belongs
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! Ivan Turgenev
Alone Great You Fate Language Free Country Doubt Righteous Dreary Russian Support Powerful Days Comfort Oh
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. Ivan Turgenev
Life Death Nature Rights Care Long Lose Destroying Destroys Whether While Creates Extinguished
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. Ivan Turgenev
Future People Word Tomorrow Indecisive Invented Children
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 Turgenev
Poet Secret Must Only Poetry Fade He Feel Know Bloom Psychologist Themselves Roots Should Full Away Present Phenomena

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