Turgenev

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“However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

“We sit in the mud ... and reach for the stars.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

“I wish to say that, in so far as I can, I hope to promote the enactment of further legislation of this character.
There’s nothing else one can say about me—I’m superfluous, in a word. A supernumerary—that’s all. Nature evidently didn’t count on my appearance, and consequently treated me as an unexpected, uninvited guest.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)