Quote by Ivan Turgenev
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound symp

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. – Ivan Turgenev

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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? – Ivan Turgenev

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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesnt know art, just as it doesnt know freedom, just as it doesnt know goodness. – Ivan Turgenev

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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

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Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. – Joni Mitchell

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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. – S. J. Perelman

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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. – Richard M. Nixon

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A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. – Morris Raphael Cohen

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