Quotes from Home of the Gentry

“Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry

“To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry

“Victims of misfortune are quick to sense another of their kind from a distance, but in old age they rarely become friends, which is in no way surprising: they have nothing to share together - not even hope.”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry

“Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry

“Vai de inima care n-a iubit în tinerețe!”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry

“здесь незачем волноваться, нечего мутить; здесь только тому и удача, кто прокладывает свою тропинку не торопясь, как пахарь борозду плугом”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry

“А сверх того, вы все, вся ваша братия, — продолжал неугомонный Михалевич, — начитанные байбаки. Вы знаете, на какую ножку немец хромает, знаете, что плохо у англичан и у французов, — и вам ваше жалкое знание в подспорье идет, лень вашу постыдную, бездействие ваше гнусное оправдывает. Иной даже гордится тем, что я, мол, вот умница — лежу, а те, дураки, хлопочут.”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry

“О, это мление скуки — гибель русских людей!”
― Ivan Turgenev, quote from Home of the Gentry

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