Constance Garnett

He longed to forget himself altogether, to forget everything, and then to wake up and begin life anew.

He was followed to the grave by a vast multitude of mourners, who “gave the hapless man the funeral of a king.”

Most of Turgenev’s books I have read many times over, all of them I have read more than twice. For a number of years I read them again and again without much caring for other fiction

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

five-storied house

quite the contrary

Hopelessly in the fullest sense, when you know beforehand that you will get nothing by it.

Well, when one has no one, nowhere else one can go! For every man must have somewhere to go

all that is secret is made open.

He will suffer if he is sorry for his victim.