"Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev" was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Literary realism/Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons (novel)/Fathers and Sons (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this—Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself.

The temerity to believe in nothing.