Ivan Bunin quotes
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“Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.”
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“Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.”
-- Ivan BuninSource : Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Gleb Struve, Heidi Hillis (1994). “The Life of Arseniev: Youth”, p.6, Northwestern University Press
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“You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.”
-- Ivan Bunin
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“Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.”
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.
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“My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!”
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“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
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