Ivan Turgenev Quotes


However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.


Citations

Turgenev, Ivan. "A Tour in the Forest." The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories, translated by Isabel F. Hapgood, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.

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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.