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

~Ivan Turgenev

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Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

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

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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

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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!

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

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Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

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

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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

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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 obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Novelist

Born: October 28th, 1818

Died: September 3rd, 1883

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