Ivan Turgenev Quotes


Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.


Citations

Turgenev, Ivan. A Nest of the Gentry. Translated by Bernard Isaacs, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1947.

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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
  • Born: November 9, 1818
  • Died: September 3, 1883
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Writer, Poet, Translator

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.