Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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![However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. - Ivan Turgenev quote.](/img/q/33/26133A-however-much-you-knock-at-natures-door-she-will-never-ivan-turgenev.png)
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
![To desire and expect nothing for oneself–and to have profound sympathy for others–is genuine holiness. - Ivan Turgenev quote.](/img/q/34/40534A-to-desire-and-expect-nothing-for-oneself-have-profound-sympathy-ivan-turgenev.png)
To desire and expect nothing for oneself–and to have profound sympathy for others–is genuine holiness.
![Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four." - Ivan Turgenev quote.](/img/q/45/38045A-whatever-a-man-prays-for-he-prays-miracle-every-prayer-ivan-turgenev.png)
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."
![Nature cares nothing for our logic, our human logic; she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crunched under its wheel. - Ivan Turgenev quote.](/img/q/78/51878A-nature-cares-nothing-for-our-logic-our-human-logic-she-ivan-turgenev.png)
Nature cares nothing for our logic, our human logic; she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crunched under its wheel.
![A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves—in full bloom or as they fade away. - Ivan Turgenev quote.](/img/q/89/37589A-a-poet-must-be-a-psychologist-but-secret-one-he-ivan-turgenev.png)
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves—in full bloom or as they fade away.
![Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes. - Ivan Turgenev quote.](/img/q/76/29176A-death-is-like-a-fisherman-who-has-caught-fish-his-ivan-turgenev.png)
Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes.