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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (/tɜːrˈɡɛnjəf, -ˈɡeɪn-/; Russian: Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́нев, IPA: [ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲeɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf]; November 9 [O.S. October 28] 1818 – September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Can Do, Doe, Like, Poetry, Speak, Truth

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

Care, Cares, Nature, Under, Wheel, Wheels

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

God, Grant, Miracle, Prayer, Prays, Two

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Anger, Envy, Failing, Sit

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Atheist, Four, God, Grant, Twice, Two

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

Front, Goal, Long, Memories, Road

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

Death, Disprove, Trying

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

Abdomen, Bothered, Feelings, Sinking Feeling, Stomach

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Belong, Hands, Thing, Things In Life, Whole

Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

Continues, Fishing, Lakes, Sea, Time, Water

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.

Energies, Essence, Health, Law, Nature, Sensations

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!

Alone, Country, Fate, Powerful, Support

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

Bored, Children, Parent, Parents

The temerity to believe in nothing.

Atheism, Believe, Nothing, Positive Atheism, Temerity

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Desire, Holiness, Nothing, Profound, Sympathy

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Children, Invented, People, Tomorrow, Word

The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

Catch, Knowing, Like, People, Running, Whole

We sit in the mud. . . and reach for the stars.

Mud, Reach, Sit, Stars

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.

Art, Inexorable, Know, Law, Laws, Reason

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 of life. . . . A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

Complain, Fate, Life, Mean, Shattered

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