Author: Ivan Turgenev
Cites
- NULL (2)
- IN: Virgin Soil (2000) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Virgin Soil should be turned up not by a harrow skimming over the surface, but by a plough biting deep into the earth.
FROM: The Note-book of a Farmer, (None), Book, NULL
- IN: Spring Torrents (1872) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Those happy years,
Those days so gay,
Like the rush of spring torrents
Have vanished away.
FROM: [From a very old song], (None), Song, NULL
Cited by
- John Heilpern (1)
- IN: John Osbourne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man (2006) Non-Fiction, Biography, British
EPIGRAPH: What aim do you wish to achieve, where are you going, what is in your soul? In a word, who are you? What are you?
FROM: Fathers and Sons, (1862), Novel, Russia
- Monica Ali (1)
- IN: Brick Lane (2003) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsece, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
- IN: The Gambler and Other Stories (1877) Fiction, Anthology, NULL
EPIGRAPH: ...Or was his destiny from the start
To be but just one moment
Near your heart?...
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Russia
- Paul Doiron (1)
- IN: The Poacher's Son (2010) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The heart of another is a dark forest...
FROM: A Month in the Country, (1855), Play, Russia