Ivan Turgenev Messages

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.

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

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

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

What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.

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

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.