Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenevwas a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sonsis regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 November 1818
CountryRussian Federation
nature health law
Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.
country powerful fate
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!
overcoming illness persons
a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it
sympathy profound desire
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
pain joy causes
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
friendship long people
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.
opinion agree my-own
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
heart flirting actors
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.
prayer men miracle
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself...
memories goal long
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me — a long, long road without a goal...
soul aversion hints
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
flower eye heart
However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.
two important four
What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
facts nihilist dunces
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.