O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, even grief is a comfort to you, even sadness suits your looks, you are self-assured and bold, you say: 'Look, I'm the only one alive! ' while the very days of your life run away and vanish without a trace and without number and everything in you disappears like wax, like snow in the heat of the sun.. And perhaps the entire secret of your charm consists not in the possibility of doing everything, but in the possibility of thinking you can do everything, perhaps it consists precisely in the fact that you want only to scatter on the wind energies that you wouldn't know how to use for anything else, perhaps it consists in the fact that each one of us seriously regards himself as a spendthrift and seriously considers that he has the right to say: 'Oh, the things I could have done if only I hadn't wasted my time! . Ivan Turgenev
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  3. The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. - Oscar Wilde

  4. To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. - Maya Angelou

  5. Why do you want to be on The Real World?-Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why?- Isn't it gorgeous? - Dave Eggers

More Quotes By Ivan Turgenev
  1. Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack.. The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to...

  2. We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

  3. It’s strange how things happen in life: you live with someone for a long time, you are on the best of terms, yet you never once speak to them frankly and from the heart; with someone else, you’ve hardly even got acquainted - and there...

  4. Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

  5. That's what children are for–that their parents may not be bored.

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