“A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?”
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“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev
“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 do...”
Ivan Turgenev
“We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.”
Ivan Turgenev
“For myself, I detest the fellow, and think him a charlatan. I am certain that, in spite of his frogs, he is making no real progress in physics.”
Ivan Turgenev
“Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own."”
Ivan Turgenev