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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In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my countrys fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! – 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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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each others habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. – Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want. – Johann von Goethe

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

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