Ivan Goncharov quotes
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“It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.”
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“A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.”
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“When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.”
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“I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.”
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“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”
-- Ivan GoncharovSource : Ivan Goncharov (2015). “Oblomov”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.”
-- Ivan GoncharovSource : Ivan Goncharov (2006). “Oblomov: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.”
-- Ivan GoncharovSource : 1859 Oblomov, pt.2, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).
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“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
Source : "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
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“A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.”
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.
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“Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.”
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“Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.”
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