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“I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, who never even attracted to himself the attention of an observer of nature, who omits no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope...”
― Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

“a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“A man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun - but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he's incapable of understanding.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons