Ivan Turgenev Quotes about Life

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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 serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

Ivan Turgenev

Life, Deception, Demand

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

Ivan Turgenev

Life, Freedom, Lying

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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

Ivan Turgenev

Life, Essence, Alienation

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.

Ivan Turgenev

Life, Mean, Fate

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.485, Northwestern University Press

Ivan Turgenev Quotes about Life

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