# On the Eve

- Author: [Ivan S. Turgenev](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivan-s-turgenev.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivan-s-turgenev/on-the-eve

## Quotes

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

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

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> 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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