Ivan S. Turgenev

Quotes

1. Egoism is suicide. The egoist withers like a solitary barren tree; but pride, ambition, as the active effort after perfection, is the source of all that is great ... Yes! a man must prune away the stubborn egoism of his personality to give it the right of self-expression.

2. 

   Do you see that apple tree? It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit. True emblem of a genius.

3. 

   Blessed is he who has been young in his youth.

4. 

   Each of us is guilty by the fact that he lives.

5. 

   In your dark workshop, let the sun shine on other men! Even our dull life has its own pride, its own happiness!

6. 

   I sought happiness, and I shall find—perhaps death. It seemsit was to be thus: it seems it was a sin ... But death covers all and reconciles all; does it not?

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   'There was a time,' Nikolai Artemyevitch resumed, 'when daughters did not allow themselves to look down on their parents—when the parental authority forced the disobedient to tremble. That time has passed, unhappily: so at least many persons imagine; but let me tell you, there are still laws which do not permit—do not permit—in fact there are still laws. I beg you to mark that: there are still laws——'

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