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What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person—it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface ...

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Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature—thi...

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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'...

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Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serene...

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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 ob...

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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

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Belonging to oneself—the whole essence of life lies in that.

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As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-ca...

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Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at th...

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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.

By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

By Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev