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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Significance is sweet.
The temerity to believe in nothing.
Everyone needs help from everyone else.
I share no man's opinions; I have my own.
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.
It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
I never started from ideas but always from character.
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?
That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. "I don't adopt any one's ideas; I have my own.
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
