Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
Ivan TurgenevMost people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
Ivan TurgenevI'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
Ivan TurgenevSo many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.
Ivan Turgenev