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Do you see that apple tree? It is broken by the weight and abundance of its own fruit. True emblem of a genius.

— Ivan Turgenev Rudin (1856)

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Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone.

Father and Sons (1862)

I have had no such experience, but imaging that to be loved by a woman one loves is a great happiness.

A Month in the Country (1855)

In your dark workshop, let the sun shine on other men! Even our dull life has its own pride, its own happiness!

On the Eve (1860)

Each of us is guilty by the fact that he lives.

On the Eve (1860)

Blessed is he who has been young in his youth.

Rudin (1856)

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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