Ivan Turgenev

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as…

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity…

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or…

Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew…

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone…

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is…