"Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."

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Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.741, Northwestern University Press

Ivan Turgenev

#Encounters Quotes #Individual Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.”
“The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.”
“If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen.”
“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”
“The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he is.”
“Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.”
“I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'”
“We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.”

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