Russian Literature

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An organ grinder leading a trained fox and a dog. Ivan Turgenev’s drawing in his sketchbook, 1834
from http://riowang.blogspot.com/

An organ grinder leading a trained fox and a dog. Ivan Turgenev’s drawing in his sketchbook, 1834

from http://riowang.blogspot.com/

"I had no first love. I began with the second."

— Ivan Turgenev, First Love (via minutelovestories)

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Ilya Repin - Turgenev

"It’s the petty ones that see the pettiness in others."

— Luka Petrovich, Sketches from a Hunter’s Album (via kistlercommons)

"The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist… And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something… What chaos! What a farce!"

— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (via tellhimtoshrug)

Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev) second edition.

"…could he have been born from the start
If only for a fleeting moment
To be so dear to your heart."

— Ivan Turgenev

"It is enough to have one single human specimen in order to judge all the others. People are like trees in a forest: no botanist would dream of studying each individual birch-tree."

— Yevgeny Vasil’evich Bazarov // Fathers And Sons (via aloneweseekshadowstohidein)

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“Those sweet fleeting moments, why could one not live an eternal undying life in them?”

-Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

"We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves."

— Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve (via falseknights)

"I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But I do know what the heart of a good man is like, and it is terrible."

— Ivan Turgenev (via patchedup)

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"I know very well that I don’t write as well as Turgenev; still the difference is really not so great, and I hope in time to write quite as well as he does."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky on a letter to a friend (1859) (via dostoyevsky)

"And was it his destined part
Only one moment in his life
To be close to your heart?
Or was he fated from the start
to live for just one fleeting instant,
within the purlieus of your heart."

— Ivan Turgenev (Dostoyevsky’s White Nights first lines)

Husbands and Wives, Woddy Allen

Turgenev death mask.