Ivan Turgenev The word tomorrow was invented for people indecisive - and for children I as a child calmed myself with this magic word

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - one of the most famousRussian writers-realists, a poet, playwright, publicist and translator. He had a significant influence on the Russian and West European novel of the XIX century, first began to study the "new man" of the sixties, his psychology and moral qualities, brought out the type of "nihilist". In his works, you can find many deep quotes on which to think about, and we share with you some of the most significant.

If one good thing went away with youththe other ages of human life would have seemed so intolerable that every individual would have cut his throat in the thirty-second year. Many squabbles float in the noisy waves of youth and swim away with them; but all the same, there is nothing better than these waves.
People, spoiled in childhood, retain a special imprint for the rest of their lives.
Argue with a man smarter than you: He will defeat you, but from your very defeat you can gain for yourself. Argue with a man of equal mind: for whomever victory remains, at least you will enjoy the fight. Argue with the weakest person: argue not from the desire to win, but you can be useful to him. Argue even with a fool! No fame or benefit you will not get ... But why sometimes do not have fun
Exceptions, you know, only confirm the rule.
It [happiness] is like health: when you do not notice it, it means it exists.
Honesty gave him the right to be ruthless and not to do unqualified good; and he was ruthless - and did not do good ... because good by decree - not good.
Love, I thought, is stronger than death and the fear of death. Only it, only love keeps and moves life.
Have you noticed that - on an oak tree - but a strong oak treetree - the old leaves only fall away when the young begin to make their way? Exactly the same happens with old love in a strong heart: it is already extinct, but still holds; only another, a new love can survive it.
Our life does not depend on us; but we all have one anchor, from which, if you do not want to, you will never fail: the sense of duty.
Apparently, our shortcomings grow on the same soil with our virtues, and it is difficult to wrest one by sparing the others.
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and the person in it is an employee.
The ancient Greeks did not for nothing say that the last and highest gift of the gods to man is a sense of proportion.
Whatever a person prays, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer is reduced to the following: "Great God, do that twice two - there were not four!". But can even a personal, living, figurative god do that twice two - there were not four?
Marriage, based on mutual inclinations and on the understanding, is one of the greatest blessings of human life.
All love is happy, as is the miserable, real disaster, when you give it all.
Love and Hunger - their goal is one: it is necessary that life does not stop, own and alien - all the same, universal life. (A poem in the prose "Two brothers").
Do you like a woman - try to make sense; but it is impossible - well, do not, turn your back - the light did not come together with a wedge.
If you wait for a minute, when everything is decidedly everything will be ready - you will never have to start.
Do you want to be happy? Learn to suffer first.
There is nothing more painful than the consciousness of the stupidity just made.
Anyone who aspires to a lofty goal should no longer think of himself.