Quotes by : Ivan Goncharov

When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're....

The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind....

A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings,....

Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain,....

As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon....

Ah! This is retribution for Promethean fire! Besides being patient, you must also love this sadness and....

He had never clearly fathomed the true weight of a word of good, truth, and purity cast in the stream....

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed or not possible to avoid....

She attended the French performance, but the play's content now had a connection to her life. She read....

Plunged up to the ears in work, good friend!" thought Oblomov as he watched him depart. "Yes, and blind....

When all the forces in your organism come into play, then life will begin to play around you as well.....