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Rudin QUOTES

Rudin QUOTES

1 " Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is around us. Look at those trees, that sky on all sides there is the breath of beauty, and of life, and where there is life and beauty, there is poetry also. "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

2 " Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate! "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

3 " Words indeed have been my ruin; they have consumed me, and to the end I cannot be free of them. "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

4 " There are none so easily carried away as those who are without passion. "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

5 " Deny everything and you will easily pass for a man of ability; it's a well known trick. Simple hearted people are quite ready to conclude that you are worth more than what you deny. And that's often an error. In the first place, you can pick holes in anything; and secondly, even if you are right in what you say, it's the worse for you, your intellect, directed by simple negation, grows colorless and withers up. While you gratify your vanity, you are deprived of the true consolations of thought;life--the essence of life--evades your jaundiced and petty criticism, and you end by scolding and becoming ridiculous. Only one who loves has the right to censure and find fault. "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

6 " And yet can it be that I was fit for nothing, that for me there was, as it were, no work on earth to do? "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

7 " In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest writers of our times: ‘The Master, whose exquisite works have charmed our century, stands more than any other man as the incarnation of a whole race,’ because ‘a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.’ Not the Russian world only, we may add, but the whole Slavonic world, to which it was ‘an honour to have been expressed by so great a Master. "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

8 " - Asa-i cum spui, mi-a lipsit rabdarea!... Niciodata n-am stiut sa construiesc ceva. Dar e si greu, frate, sa cladesti, cand nu stapanesti nici macar terenul de sub picioare, cand singur esti nevoit sa-ti creezi fundamentul propriu "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

9 " Рудин заговорил о самолюбии, и очень дельно заговорил. Он доказывал, что человек без самолюбия ничтожен, что самолюбие – архимедов рычаг, которым землю с места можно сдвинуть, но что в то же время тот только заслуживает название человека, кто умеет овладеть своим самолюбием, как всадник конем, кто свою личность приносит в жертву общему благу…

– Себялюбие, – так заключил он, – самоубийство. Себялюбивый человек засыхает словно одинокое, бесплодное дерево; но самолюбие, как деятельное стремление к совершенству, есть источник всего великого … Да! человеку надо надломить упорный эгоизм своей личности, чтобы дать ей право себя высказывать! "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin

10 " إذا كانَ الإنسان لا يملكُ أساسًا قويًا يُؤمن به، و لا أرضًا يقِف عليها بثَبَات، فكيف يُمكن له أن يعي حاجات شعبه وأهميته ومستقبل أيامه؟ كيفَ يُمكن له أن يعرف ما يجب أن يقوم به بنفسه؟ "

― Ivan Turgenev , Rudin