Turgenev

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“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 Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

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

“To desire and expect nothing for oneself—and to have profound sympathy for others—is genuine holiness.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)